Crossword clues for tempering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
moderating \moderating\ adj. lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying. [Narrower terms: tempering; weakening]
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is tempered. vb. (present participle of temper English)
WordNet
adj. moderating by making more temperate
n. hardening something by heat treatment [syn: annealing]
Wikipedia
Tempering is a process of heat treating, which is used to increase the toughness of iron-based alloys. Tempering is usually performed after hardening, to reduce some of the excess hardness, and is done by heating the metal to some temperature below the critical point for a certain period of time, then allowing it to cool in still air. The exact temperature determines the amount of hardness removed, and depends on both the specific composition of the alloy and on the desired properties in the finished product. For instance, very hard tools are often tempered at low temperatures, while springs are tempered to much higher temperatures.
Tempering may refer to:
- Tempering (metallurgy), a heat treatment technique for metals and alloys
- A process for producing tempered glass
- Chocolate tempering, a method of increasing the shine and durability of chocolate couverture
- The brief frying of spices (particularly in the cuisines of South Asia) in oil or ghee to release their aroma; called chaunk in Hindi, or tadka.
Tempering is a cooking technique used in the cuisines of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, in which whole spices (and sometimes also other ingredients such as dried chillies, minced ginger root or sugar) are roasted briefly in oil or ghee to liberate essential oils from cells and thus enhance their flavours, before being poured, together with the oil, into a dish. Tempering is also practiced by dry roasting whole spices in a pan before grinding the spices.
Tempering is typically done at the beginning of cooking, before adding the other ingredients for a curry or similar dish, or it may be added to a dish at the end of cooking, just before serving (as with a dal, sambar or stew).
Usage examples of "tempering".
Of that great, tempering, benign shadow over the continent, tempering its heat, giving shelter from its cold, restraining the waters, there is left about 65 per cent in acreage and not more than one-half the merchantable timber--five hundred million acres gone in a century and a half.
Whether a discord is too violent or no, depends on what we have been accustomed to, and on how widely the new differs from the old, but in no case can we fuse and assimilate more than a very little new at a time without exhausting our tempering power - and hence presently our temper.
Perhaps the Grand Healers of Shardana have had more success than they claim in tempering the violence in our souls.
Tempering the wind to their sensitive self-esteem, he offered to permit the Mayor and the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw their resignations bare of comment, statement or apology.
And, as he had a peculiar love for his master Socrates, he made him the speaker in all his dialogues, putting into his mouth whatever he had learned, either from others, or from the efforts of his own powerful intellect, tempering even his moral disputations with the grace and politeness of the Socratic style.
He learned the methods of collecting bog iron, of smelting, casting, forging, hardening and tempering.
He could smell the clean hot scent of burning charcoal from the big shed up ahead of them, hot metal, sneeze-making cinders, the heavy frying smell of the oil bath used for quenching and tempering.
He had already made himself late for the market opening by taking her on and tempering his speed for her comfort.
You know how it is, you're tempering something, it like rilly has to be done in its own time.
The duplication of tempered glass is a matter of determining, whether by library research or experiment, the necessary parameters, such as tempering temperature and cooling rate.