Vocabulary : Temper screw to Temperateness
Temper screw : A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. ;; A set screw used for adjusting.Tempera : A mode or process of painting; distemper. ;; A mode or process of painting; distemper.
Temperable : Capable of being tempered.
Temperament : Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts. ;; Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions. ;; The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected. ;; Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature. ;; A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C/ becoming identical with D/, and so on. ;; The pec
Temperamental : Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.
