Usually means: Accurately tuned for harmonic consistency.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. well-tempered: Merriam-Webster
  2. well-tempered, well-tempered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Well-Tempered, Well-tempered, well-tempered: Wordnik
  4. well-tempered: Wiktionary
  5. Well-tempered: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. well-tempered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-tempered: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (well-tempered)

adjective:  (archaic, of a person) good-humoured, pleasant, having an even temperament
adjective:  (music) Having twelve notes per octave of the standard instrument tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and the resulting sound will not sound perceptibly too far out of tune.

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