Meaning

• A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

  "to have a good, bad, or calm temper"

• State of mind; mood.

• A tendency to become angry.

  "He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople."

• Anger; a fit of anger.

  "an outburst of temper"

• Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

  "to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper"

• Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

• Middle state or course; mean; medium.

• The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.

  "the temper of mortar"

• The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

• The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.

  "the temper of iron or steel"

• (sugar manufacture) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Meaning

• To moderate or control.

  "Temper your language around children."

• To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

  "Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature."

• To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

• To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

• To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

• (Latinism) To govern; to manage.

• To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

• To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

• To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.