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martempering

martempering is the present participle and gerund of martemper.

Meaning of martemper

Verb

martemper (third-person singular simple present martempers, present participle martempering, simple past and past participle martempered)

  1. (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
    Synonyms:
    marquench

Noun

martempering (usually uncountable, plural martemperings)

  1. (usually) An act or process by which one martempers a piece of steel.
    • Atwood Vacuum Machine Co.'s experience with modified martemperings has been very satisfactory. It has now been adopted as standard procedure for most all of the oil hardening […]1946, Industrial Gas, volume 25, page 19
    • 11.6.1 Martempering / The most frequent type of interrupted quenching process is called martempering, shown in Fig. 11.25. In martempering, the part is quenched into a molten salt bath at a temperature just above the Mₛ temperature. When the part reaches thermal equilibrium, but before bainite...2008, “Chapter 11: Heat Treatment of Steel”, in Flake C. Campbell, editor, Elements of Metallurgy and Engineering Alloys, ASM International, →ISBN, page 195
    Synonyms:
    marquenching

Synonyms of martempering

Forms of martempering

pluralmartemperings

Origin of martempering

From martemper + -ing; more at martemper.

Questions about martempering

What does martempering mean?
Martempering means an act or process by which one martempers a piece of steel.
What is martempering the present participle and gerund of?
Martempering is the present participle and gerund of martemper.
What part of speech is martempering?
Martempering is a noun.
What is the plural of martempering?
The plural of martempering is martemperings.

Words near martempering in the dictionary

  1. martels de fer
  2. martelé
  3. martelés
  4. martemper
  5. martempered
  6. martempering
  7. martemperings
  8. martempers
  9. marten
  10. marteniko
  11. Martenot

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