TEMPERING
- Improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it
- Improve the consistency or resiliency of (a substance) by heating it or adding particular substances to it
- Serve as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something)
- Tune (a piano or other instrument) so as to adjust the note intervals correctly
- TEMPER, to moderate (to reduce in intensity) [v]
- TEMPER, to moderate by adding a counterbalancing agent [v]