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English
Etymology
Blend of martensite + temper.
Verb
martemper (third-person singular simple present martempers, present participle martempering, simple past and past participle martempered)
- (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.