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austempered

austempered is the simple past and past participle of austemper.

Meaning of austemper

Verb

austemper (third-person singular simple present austempers, present participle austempering, simple past and past participle austempered)

  1. (transitive) To harden (a metal) and produce a stronger microstructure by heating it into the austenite region and then immediately quenching and removing any bainite and ausferrite.

Questions about austempered

What is austempered the simple past and past participle of?
Austempered is the simple past and past participle of austemper.

Words near austempered in the dictionary

  1. austausch coefficient
  2. austausch coefficients
  3. Austell
  4. Austells
  5. austemper
  6. austempered
  7. austempering
  8. austempers
  9. Austen
  10. Austenasia
  11. Austenesque

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Adapted from Wiktionary: austempered (page history and authors); austemper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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