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temper
  1. A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
  2. State of mind.
  3. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
  4. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
  5. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
  6. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
  7. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
  8. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
  9. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “Anne is of a mild temper and timid to a rather blamable degree.”
      “It begets a serene and peaceful temper and disposition of the heart.”
      “Who knows what I might do tomorrow in a fit of temper or in a fit of rage.”
temperature
  1. (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  2. (now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
  3. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
  4. An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
  5. (when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
  6. (thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Cameron County has a warm temperature with a subtropical climate, characterized by dry winters and hot humid summers.”
      “The boy has a temperature. He should rest until he feels better.”
      “The temperature plummeted to below zero, enough to make one's teeth chatter!”
temperament
  1. (obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
  2. (obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
  3. A person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
  4. A tendency to become irritable or angry.
  5. (music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “This candidate does not have a temperament that is frightening, and I think that's the key.”
      “At what age do signs of temperament emerge?”
      “Family connection and military prowess ensured his appointment as marshal, but his Gascon temperament did not make him a comfortable relative.”
temperance
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence
  2. moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
  3. Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
  4. (obsolete) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. Shakespeare, in The Tempest 2.1.41 : (of the climate of the island) "It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance"
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Kristen learned to exercise temperance in regard to how many hours she put into ministry.”
      “Clerical speakers at these celebrations repeatedly returned to the need for disciplined temperance amongst the faithful.”
      “I recall you giving up drink when you tied the knot with Miss Morstan, but surely he would not inflict his newfound temperance on every one of his guests?”
temperer
  1. A person who tempers (in any meaning).
  2. A machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The new temperer, control station and acoustic booth are located in a special area, sealed off from the rest of production.”
      “The meantone temperer is used to temper the connected musical instrument to any desired meantone-tempered scale, which is selected by the user.”
temperamentality
temperateness
  1. The characteristic of being temperate.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation.”
      “He wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself.”
      “Is the educated, temperate public right to wonder about the temperateness of many educators?”
temperaunce
  1. Obsolete form of temperance.
temperancy
  1. Archaic form of temperance.
tempering
temperamentalities
temperaments
  1. plural of temperament
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One's diet for example, can affect the body's temperaments and thus influence ones's intellectual moral character.”
      “With so many artistic temperaments involved, it was surprising that the festivals remained so free of cultural clashes.”
      “Da Capo place the Second Symphony last on disc thus leaving Nielsen's refreshing thoughts on man's four temperaments as a thoughtful makeweight.”
temperatures
  1. plural of temperature
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This fusion bomb, the product of fusion at extreme temperatures of heavy isotopes of hydrogen, is many times more powerful than the A-bomb.”
      “The behaviour of a gas at temperatures close to absolute zero depends on whether the atoms in the gas are fermions or bosons.”
      “The activation energy can be determined by finding the rate constant of a reaction at several different temperatures.”
temperaunces
  1. plural of temperaunce
temperances
temperings
temperers
  1. plural of temperer
tempers
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