tempering
English
editVerb
edittempering
- present participle and gerund of temper
Noun
edittempering (plural temperings)
- 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.
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edit- Tempering (metallurgy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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