tempered
English
adj
Definitions
- (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
- Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
- Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tempred inherited from Old English ġetemprod (goverened, moderate, cured, tempered), ġetemprian (moderate, temper, govern, cure) affix from English temper.
Origin
English
temper
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Cognates and derived terms
- good English
- good-tempered English
- mistemper English
- retemper English
- temper English
- temperability English
- temperable English
- temperedness English
- temperer English
- temperest English
- tempereth English
- temperish English
- temperless English
- tempersome English
- untemper English
- untempered English
- temperō Latin
- ġetemprian Old English
- ġetemprod Old English
- temperen Middle English
- tempred Middle English