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Adjustment vs Tempering - What's the difference?

adjustment | tempering |

As nouns the difference between adjustment and tempering

is that adjustment is a small change; a minor correction; a modification while tempering is the act by which something is tempered.

As a verb tempering is

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adjustment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a small change; a minor correction; a modification
    • The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
  • The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
    • When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.

    Synonyms

    * change * correction * modification

    Related terms

    * adjustable * adjuster

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    tempering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is tempered.
  • * 1872 , Louis Emmanuel Gruner, The Manufacture of Steel (page 29)
    • 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.