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Temperment vs Tempering - What's the difference?

temperment | tempering |

As nouns the difference between temperment and tempering

is that temperment is while tempering is the act by which something is tempered.

As a verb tempering is

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temperment

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • 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.