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Offsetting vs Tempering - What's the difference?

offsetting | tempering |

As verbs the difference between offsetting and tempering

is that offsetting is while tempering is .

As nouns the difference between offsetting and tempering

is that offsetting is the act of offsetting while tempering is the act by which something is tempered.

offsetting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of offsetting
  • An amount offset
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    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.