| 释义 |
temperament /temˈprə-mənt/ noun- Disposition, personality, esp with regard to emotional make-up
- High excitability, nervous instability, and sensitiveness
- An adjustment made to the intervals between notes on a keyboard to allow modulation to any key (music)
- Any of the recognized types of physical and mental make-up, believed to be controlled by the humours, ie choleric or bilious, sanguine, melancholy, phlegmatic (obsolete physiology)
- Combination or predominance of humour (obsolete physiology)
- State with respect to combination or predominance of qualities (obsolete)
- Proportioned mixture
- Climate (obsolete)
- Internal constitution or state
- Tempering (archaic)
- Compromise (archaic)
ORIGIN: L temperamentum the mixing of things in proper proportion temperamentˈal adjective - Relating to temperament
- Of a volatile, excitable temperament, given to extreme swings of mood
- (of a machine, etc) working erratically, unreliable
temperamentˈally adverb temperamentˈful adjective equal temperament (music) A tuning adjustment by which the octave on a keyboard is divided into twelve equal intervals |