martemper (English, verb)
expansion: martemper (third-person singular simple present martempers, present participle martempering, simple past and past participle martempered)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: martempers
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: martempering
tags: participle
present
form: martempered
tags: participle
past
form: martempered
tags: past