tempering

Questions about tempering

What does tempering mean?

tempering means "hardening something by heat treatment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tempering?

tempering has 3 syllables: tem-pe-ring. The stress falls on "tem". In IPA it is /ˈtɛmpɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for tempering?

Close synonyms include annealing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tempering a common word?

tempering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.