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  2. Musical temperament - Wikipedia

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    In the words of William Hubbard's Musical Dictionary (1908), an anomalous chord is a "chord containing an interval" that "has been made very sharp or flat in tempering the scale for instruments of fixed pitches". [2] The development of well temperament allowed fixed-pitch instruments to play reasonably well in all of the keys.

  3. Temperance (virtue) - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The modern meaning of temperance has evolved since its first usage. In Latin, tempero means restraint (from force or anger), but also more broadly the proper balancing or mixing (particularly, of temperature, or compounds). Hence the phrase "to temper a sword", meaning the heating and cooling process of forging a metal blade.

  4. Meantone temperament - Wikipedia

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    For 12 tone equally-tempered tuning, the fifths have to be tempered by considerably less than a ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ comma (very close to a ⁠ 1 / 11 ⁠ syntonic comma, or a ⁠ 1 / 12 ⁠ Pythagorean comma), since they must form a perfect cycle, with no gap at the end, whereas ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ comma meantone tuning, as mentioned above, has a residual ...

  5. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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    Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, by Sun Technical Publications, 3rd ed., 2010. [25] Red Hat style guide for technical documentation, published online by Red Hat. [26] Salesforce style guide for documentation and user interface text, published online by Salesforce. [27] The Splunk Style Guide, published online by Splunk. [28]

  6. Tantrum - Wikipedia

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    Physical control may be lost; the person may be unable to remain still; and even if the "goal" of the person is met, they may not be calmed. Throwing a temper tantrum has previously lead to a child getting detention or being suspended from school for older school age children, and could have resulted in a timeout or grounding, complete with ...

  7. 12 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    12-tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. 12 equal temperament (12-ET) [a] is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (≈ 1.05946).

  8. Temperament - Wikipedia

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    Even though temperament and psychiatric disorders can be presented as, correspondingly, weak and strong imbalances within the same regulatory systems, it is incorrect to say that temperament is a weak degree of these disorders.

  9. Four temperaments - Wikipedia

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    18th-century depiction of the four temperaments: [1] phlegmatic and choleric above, sanguine and melancholic below The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.