About The Word Bevel
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Bevel
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What's The Definition Of Bevel?
[n] a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
[n] two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees [adj] having the slant of a bevel; "a bevel edge"; "a cant buttress" [v] cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bevel: bevel square | beveled | cant | cant | chamfer | chamfer | inclined Related Terms | Find terms related to Bevel: ascender | astrolabe | azimuth circle | azimuth compass | back | bank | bastard type | beard | belly | bevel protractor | bevel square | beveled | bezel | bias | biased | black letter | body | cap | capital | case | chute | clinometer | counter | descender | easy slope | em | en | face | fat-faced type | feet | fleam | font | gentle slope | glacis | goniometer | grade | gradient | graphometer | groove | hanging gardens | helicline | hillside | inclination | incline | inclined plane | italic | launching ramp | letter | ligature | logotype | lower case | majuscule | minuscule | nick | pantometer | pi | pica | pitch | point | print | protractor | quadrant | radiogoniometer | ramp | roman | sans serif | scarp | script | sextant | shank | shelving beach | shoulder | side | slanted | slanting | slope | small cap | small capital | stamp | steep slope | stem | stiff climb | talus | theodolite | transit | transit circle | transit instrument | transit theodolite | type | type body | type class | type lice | typecase | typeface | typefounders | typefoundry | upper case See Also | cone | cut | edge | hand tool | miter | splay Bevel In Webster's Dictionary \Bev"el\, n. [C. F. biveau, earlier buveau, Sp. baivel; of
unknown origin. Cf. {Bevile}.]
1. Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one
surface makes with another when they are not at right
angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to
give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the
bevel of a piece of timber.
2. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed
together at one end, and opening to any angle, for
adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given
inclination; -- called also a {bevel square}. --Gwilt.
\Bev"el\, a. 1. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting. 2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic] I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel. --Shak. {A bevel angle}, any angle other than one of 90[deg]. {Bevel wheel}, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. --Knight. \Bev"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beveled} (?) or {Bevelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beveling} or {Bevelling}.] To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of. \Bev"el\, v. i. To deviate or incline from an angle of 90[deg], as a surface; to slant. Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. --Swift. |
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