Temper, tempered or tempering may refer to:

Heat treatment

Tempering (metallurgy) Tempering is a process of heat treating, which is used to increase the toughness of iron-based alloys. Tempering is usually performed after hardening, to reduce some of the excess hardness, and is done by heating the metal to some temperature be ...

, a heat treatment technique to increase the toughness of iron-based alloys **

Temper mill A temper mill is a steel sheet or steel plate processing line composed of a horizontal pass cold rolling mill stand, entry and exit conveyor tables and upstream and downstream equipment depending on the design and nature of the processing system ...

, a steel processing line *

Tempering (spices) Tempering is a cooking technique used in India, Bangladeshi cuisine, Bangladesh, Nepali cuisine, Nepal, Cuisine of Pakistan, Pakistan and Cuisine of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, in which whole spices (and sometimes also other ingredients such as dried ...

, a cooking technique where spices are roasted briefly in oil or ghee *

Tempered glass Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. ...

, a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments *

Tempering chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civil ...

, processing to ensure a uniform sheen and crisp bite *

Temper (pottery) A temper is a non-plastic material added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying and firing of vessels made from the clay. Tempers may include: *Bone; *Chaff; *Charcoal; *Ground schist; *Wood ash; * Grit; *Sand or crushed sandstone ...

, a non-plastic material added to clay to prevent shrinkage during drying and firing

Arts and entertainment

* ''Temper'' (film), a 2015 Telugu film ** ''Temper'' (soundtrack), or the title track, 2015 *

Temper (band) Temper is a dance music group that was led by Anthony Malloy. Chart history Their only chart entry was with the song " No Favors", which hit number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1984. The song peaked on the U.S. R&B c ...

, a dance music group * ''Temper'', a 2008 album by

Benoit Pioulard Thomas Meluch (born August 4, 1984) is an American multi-instrumentalist, writer, and photographer, best known by his pseudonym Benoît Pioulard. His music signed to Kranky Records. Biography Meluch began documenting field recordings and ...

* "Temper", a song by Cyberaktif from the 1991 album ''

Tenebrae Vision ''Tenebrae Vision'' is the only album of Canadian industrial band Cyberaktif, which consisted of cEvin Key and Dwayne R. Goettel of Skinny Puppy and former Skinny Puppy member Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly. For Cyberaktif, Leeb is credited as ...

'' * "Temper", a 2021 song by

Vera Blue Celia Pavey, known professionally as Vera Blue, is an Australian singer-songwriter signed with Island Records Australia, which is part of Universal Music Australia. Her folk-inspired album '' This Music'' peaked at number 14 on the Australian ...

* ''

Temper, or, Domestic Scenes ''Temper, or, Domestic Scenes'' is a three-volume novel by Amelia Opie that was published in 1812 and 1813. It explores issues concerning mother-daughter relationships, female education, and the unfairness of patriarchal marriage customs. Opie s ...

'', a novel by Amelia Opie, 1812–1813 * ''

The Tempering ''The Tempering'' is a young adult novel by the American writer Gloria Skurzynski set in 1911 in the fictional mill town of Canaan (a parallel to the author's hometown of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, just south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela Riv ...

'', a young-adult novel by Gloria Skurzynski, 1983 * Temper, a character in ''Corner Shop Show'' * ''

Kanthaswamy ''Kanthaswamy'' is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language superhero film written and directed by Susi Ganesan, starring Vikram as the titular character, with Prabhu, Shriya Saran, Ashish Vidyarthi, Mukesh Tiwari, Krishna Ghattamaneni and Vadivelu form ...

'', a 2009 Indian Tamil-language film, titled ''Temper 2'' in Hindi

Other uses

Temper (artist) Temper is an English graffiti artist. He is most prolific in the advancement of spray paint photorealism in the United Kingdom. He was the first graffiti artist to create a conceptual collection on canvas and revolutionalised portraiture in popula ...

, an English graffiti artist *

Tempering (music) In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Most modern Western musical instruments are tuned in the equal temperament system. Tempering is th ...

, adjusting the musical temperament of an instrument *

Tempered distribution Distributions, also known as Schwartz distributions or generalized functions, are objects that generalize the classical notion of functions in mathematical analysis. Distributions make it possible to differentiate functions whose derivatives d ...

, in mathematics *

Tempered representation In mathematics, a tempered representation of a linear semisimple Lie group is a representation that has a basis whose matrix coefficients lie in the L''p'' space :''L''2+ε(''G'') for any ε > 0. Formulation This condition, as just g ...

, in mathematics * Temper, an alternate spelling of

Tempel (boat) Tempel, also known as temper or kurikong, is a type of wooden motorized boat used by the Yakan, Tausug, and Sama-Bajau people of the Philippines. It is commonly used in the Sulu Archipelago and the Zamboanga Peninsula. It is around long, deep, a ...

, a type of native cargo boat from the Philippines

Heat treatment

Arts and entertainment

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