• Portuguese(Brazil): pavio-curto, tempero

Verb

1. To moderate or control.

   Temper your language around children.

2. To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.

   Next, temper the steel by dropping the white hot metal into cold water.

3. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency

Translations

• Spanish: templar

Temperare (to mix correctly) is the Latin origin of words like "temperature" and "tempering"; it and "tempo" come, in turn, from tempus (time or season). Thus, the word "temper" can refer (at least informally) to any time- and temperature-sensitive process (as for chocolate tempering or tempered glass), a material's thermo-mechanical history (including cold work and cryogenic hardening), or even its composition.

Temper may mean:

• Temper-3D, CAD program for calculating temperature in any 3D objects
• Tempering, in metallurgy, a heat treatment technique for metals and alloys; also a method for producing toughened glass
• Tempering, in cooking, refers to the frying of spices (particularly in the cuisines of South Asia) to release their aroma; called chaunk in Hindi
• In music, temper describes the method used to tune an instrument to produce a pleasing sound
• The Well-Tempered Clavier is a composition by Bach making use of well tempered tuning
• Tempered representation in mathematics
• Temperament, in psychology, the general nature of an individual's personality
• Tempering, in chocolate manufacture, a method of increasing the shine and durability of chocolate couverture
• A display of anger
• Temper (band), an American dance music group

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