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In [[regular temperament theory]], '''detempering''' is the process of taking a tempered [[tuning system]] and replacing each of its pitches with one or more pitches from its [[preimage]], that is, the just or tempered pitches that the pitch represents. It is the opposite of [[tempering out|tempering]]. Specifically, a '''detempered system''' (aka '''detemperament''' or '''detempering''') has each pitch of a tempered system (according to a fixed regular temperament) replaced with some set of interpretations of the pitch under the temperament mapping. If exactly one JI interpretation is used for each degree of a scale, then the detempered scale is called a [[transversal]], or ''one-to-one detempering''. Ideally the resultant JI pitch system will have a compact lattice. A higher rank temperament is also called a detempering of a lower-rank temperament if the lower-rank temperament results from tempering out one or more commas in the higher-rank temperament. For example, meantone is a detempering of 12edo.
In [[regular temperament theory]], '''detempering''' is the process of taking a tempered [[tuning system]] and replacing each of its pitches with one or more pitches from its [[preimage]], that is, the just or tempered pitches that the pitch represents. It is the opposite of [[tempering out|tempering]]. Specifically, a '''detempered system''' (aka '''detemperament''' or '''detempering''') has each pitch of a tempered system (according to a fixed regular temperament) replaced with some set of interpretations of the pitch under the temperament mapping. If exactly one JI interpretation is used for each degree of a scale, then the detempered scale is called a [[transversal]], or ''one-to-one detempering''. Ideally the resultant JI pitch system will have a compact lattice. A higher rank temperament is also called a detempering of a lower-rank temperament if the lower-rank temperament results from tempering out one or more commas in the higher-rank temperament. For example, meantone is a detempering of 12edo.


The term ''deregularization'' can be used as a [[JI-agnostic]] alternative to ''detempering''. In this sense, [[diasem]] (LMLSLMLSL) is a deregularization of [[semiquartal]] (LSLSLSLSL) which "detempers" the S step of semiquartal into two steps sizes M and S.
== Deregularization ==
 
The term ''deregularization'' can be used as a [[JI-agnostic]] alternative to ''detempering''.
 
In this sense, [[diasem]] (LMLSLMLSL) is a deregularization of [[semiquartal]] (LSLSLSLSL) which "detempers" the S step of semiquartal into two steps sizes M and S.


== Versus neji ==
== Versus neji ==