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Definition temper

Etymology

From Middle English temperen, tempren, from Old English ?etemprian, temprian, borrowed from Latin temperare (“to divide or proportion duly, mingle in due proportion, qualify, temper, regulate, rule, intransitive observe measure, be moderate or temperate”), from tempus (“time, fit season”). Compare also French tempérer. Doublet of tamper. See temporal.

Noun

temper (countable and uncountable, plural tempers)

1. A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
2. State of mind; mood.
3. A tendency to become angry.
4. Anger; a fit of anger.
5. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
6. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
7. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
8. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
9. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
10. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
11. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Verb

temper (third-person singular simple present tempers, present participle tempering, simple past and past participle tempered)

1. To moderate or control.
2. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
3. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
4. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
5. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
6. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
7. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
8. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
9. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

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