tempering en · NOUN
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The act by which something is tempered.
Caron has, in fact, discovered this very curious circumstance, that a bar of steel becomes shorter under successive temperings, while it increases in size, laterally, in such a manner, that there actually is an increase of volume.
1872, Louis Emmanuel Gruner, The Manufacture of Steel, page 29:
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(qualifier:pottery) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; temper.
Clay and tempering were packed around the pole together with plenty of water[.]
1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| temperings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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hu edzés (heat treatment of a metal) · fr revenu (heat treatment of a metal) · es revenido (heat treatment of a metal) · pl odpuszczanie (heat treatment of a metal)