Dictionary Entry
tempering
tempering is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Temper. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Temper
- 2noun
The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
- 3noun
hardening something by heat treatment
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- 4adjective
moderating by making more temperate
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