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Tampering vs Tempering - What's the difference?

tampering | tempering |

As verbs the difference between tampering and tempering

is that tampering is present participle of lang=en while tempering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tampering and tempering

is that tampering is the act of one who tampers while tempering is the act by which something is tempered.

tampering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who tampers.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers

    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.