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Tempering vs Limiting - What's the difference?

tempering | limiting |

As verbs the difference between tempering and limiting

is that tempering is while limiting is .

As nouns the difference between tempering and limiting

is that tempering is the act by which something is tempered while limiting is a limitation.

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.

    limiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A limitation.
  • * 1846 , George Frederick Simmons, Letter to the So-called "Boston Churches" (page 19)
    • After the discoveries of criticism, the new reverence for the Bible will teach one thing, and that namely which has been my theme, — how much deeper the truth that is in Christ lies than the errors and limitings of the understanding