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The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. -- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yieldy temper. Swift.

Frame; make; temperament. [Obs.] His composure must be rare indeed Whom these things can not blemish. Shak.

person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.

ecome more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer.

Temperament; disposition; character. [Obs.] The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil. Shak.

piness of both. Macaulay. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood. Shak.

me through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree. J. D. Everett. -- Thermometic conductivity (Physics), the thermal conductivity when the unit of heat employed is the heat required to raise unit volume of the substance one degree.

tely, now followed by with. This was a consisting story. Bp. Burnet. Health consists with temperance alone. Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

The aggregate of mental qualities; temperament. He defended himself with . . . less passion than was expected from his constitution. Clarendon.

n to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome. Despotic and contentious temper. Macaulay.

Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate. Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower. Shak.

In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.

heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes. Liquids are generally heated by convection -- when heat is applied from bellow. Nichol.

A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.