tempering

The act by which something is tempered.

Noun

  1. The act by which something is tempered.
    • 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...
  2. A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; temper.
    • Clay and tempering were packed around the pole together with plenty of water[.] - 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:

Forms

temperings

Derived

nontempering

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of temper