Usually means: Heating and cooling to harden.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. tempering: Merriam-Webster
  2. tempering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tempering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tempering, tempering: Wordnik
  5. tempering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tempering: Wiktionary
  7. tempering: Dictionary.com
  8. tempering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tempering (Spices), Tempering (metallurgy), Tempering (spices), Tempering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tempering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. tempering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. tempering: Rhymezone
  13. Tempering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. tempering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. tempering: FreeDictionary.org
  16. tempering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. tempering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tempering: Legal dictionary
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  1. tempering: Encyclopedia

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  2. tempering: Medical dictionary

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  1. tempering: Idioms

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  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  4. Tempering: /Chocolate Glossary
  5. Chocolate Terminology (No longer online)
  6. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. TEMPERING: Chocolate Glossary

(Note: See temper as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tempering)

noun:  The act by which something is tempered.
noun:  (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; temper.

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