0 present participle of temper --
2 to heat and then cool a metal in order to make it hard: --
tempered steel
The term "tempering the wind to the shorn lamb" has also been used in this connection.
Heath (1997) used the simulated tempering sampler to improve mixing in the analysis of haploid radiation hybrid mapping data.
Such disjunctures can only be discovered, however, by extended ethnographic and\or historical research that explores the role of local knowledge and knowledge of the local in tempering master plans.
The difficulties that adolescents experience in tempering reward seeking with cognition illustrate the possibility that reward systems are not yet subject to the full regulatory influence of prefrontal cortical systems.
He clearly decided that though he could not deny their admission, he also could not rely on tempering instructions to the jury alone.
The need for acoustic modulation and, in some spaces, isolation is possibly the strongest constraint tempering the drive towards internal openness and f lexibility.
The problem of tempering keyboard and fretted instruments has occupied the attention of musicians and theorists for hundreds of years.
For many women, breast cancer has been present for some years, potentially tempering their anxiety.
