// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did temper say to the metal? You're heated.

Temper, tempered or tempering may refer to:

Heat treatment

• Tempering (metallurgy), a heat treatment technique to increase the toughness of iron-based alloys
  • Temper mill, a steel processing line
• Tempering (spices), a cooking technique where spices are roasted briefly in oil or ghee
• Tempered glass, a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments
• Tempering chocolate, processing to ensure a uniform sheen and crisp bite
• Temper (pottery), 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), a dance music group
• Tempers, an American synth-pop band
• Temper (artist), an English graffiti artist
• Temper, a 2008 album by Benoit Pioulard
• "Temper", a song by Cyberaktif from the 1991 album Tenebrae Vision
• "Temper", a 2021 song by Vera Blue
• Temper, or, Domestic Scenes, a novel by Amelia Opie, 1812–1813
• The Tempering, a young-adult novel by Gloria Skurzynski, 1983
• Temper, a character in Corner Shop Show
• Temper, a Marvel Comics character formerly known as Oya
• Kanthaswamy, a 2009 Indian Tamil-language film, titled Temper 2 in Hindi
• Temper (Drayden novel), a 2018 novel by Nicky Drayden
• Temper (Fargo novel), a 2019 novel by Layne Fargo

Other uses

• Tempering (music), adjusting the musical temperament of an instrument
• Tempered distribution, in mathematics
• Tempered representation, in mathematics
• Temper, an alternate spelling of Tempel (boat), a type of native cargo boat from the Philippines

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Temper
• All pages with titles containing Temper
• Temper Temper (disambiguation)
• Tremper (disambiguation)
• True Temper (disambiguation)
• Temperament, in psychology, consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based
• The Well-Tempered Clavier, a composition by Bach
• Irritability, low frustration tolerance and high frustration tolerance, related to temper.