Usually means: State of emotional and mental agitation.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. temper: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. temper, temper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. temper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. temper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. temper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Temper, temper: Wordnik
  7. temper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. temper: Wiktionary
  9. temper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. temper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. temper: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. temper: Dictionary.com
  13. temper (n.), temper (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. temper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Temper (album), Temper (artist), Temper (band), Temper (film), Temper (pottery), Temper (soundtrack), Temper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Temper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. temper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. temper: Rhymezone
  19. temper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. temper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Temper (bad): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. Temper: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. temper: Free Dictionary
  24. temper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. temper: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. temper: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. temper: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. temper: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. temper: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  2. temper: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. temper: Encyclopedia

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  2. temper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TEMPER: Acronym Finder
  2. temper: Idioms
  3. temper: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Temper: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. temper: The Folk File
  2. Temper: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  5. TEMPER: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

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noun:  A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
noun:  State of mind; mood.
noun:  A tendency to become angry.
noun:  Anger; a fit of anger.
noun:  Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
noun:  (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
noun:  Middle state or course; mean; medium.
noun:  The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
noun:  The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
noun:  The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
noun:  (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
verb:  To moderate or control.
verb:  To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
verb:  (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
verb:  To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
verb:  To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
verb:  (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
verb:  (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
verb:  (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
verb:  (archaic) 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.
verb:  (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

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