Crossword clues for chamfer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chamfer \Cham"fer\, n. [See Chamfron.] The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
Chamfer \Cham"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chamfered; p. pr. & vb. n. Chamfering. ]
(Carp.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
To make a chamfer on.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "small groove cut in wood or stone," from Middle French chanfraindre (15c., Modern French chanfreiner), past participle of chanfraint. The second element seems to be from Latin frangere "to break" (see fraction); perhaps the whole word is cantum frangere "to break the edge." Meaning "bevelled surface of a square edge or corner" is attested from c.1840, of uncertain connection to the other sense.
Wiktionary
n. (context woodworking engineering drafting CAD English) an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges vb. 1 (context transitive English) to cut off the edge or corner of something; to bevel 2 (context transitive English) to cut a groove in something; to flute
WordNet
Wikipedia
A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. It can also be known as a bevel but connotes more often cutting and is more often 45° with respect to the two adjoining faces. If the un-chamfered intersection of the adjoining faces would otherwise form a right angle, 90° as is most common, the chamfer will typically be uniform and pitched at 45° . A fully chamfered square interior would thus be octagonal. (By contrast, a fillet is the rounding off of an interior corner, and a rounding of an exterior corner is called a "round" or a "radius")
"Chamfer" is a term commonly used in mechanical and manufacturing engineering. Special tools such as chamfer mills and chamfer planes are available. In tile work, or furniture such as counters or table tops, an edge or arris that has been eased by rounding instead of chamfering is called a bullnose. Where a chamfer does not go to the end of the piece, but "lifts out" in a smooth curve, the end is called a lark's tongue.
In non-aesthetic uses, chamfers are necessary in parabolic glass mirror manufacture and desirable in certain printed circuit boards.
Usage examples of "chamfer".
In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund, amassed by the girls from a summer fair, Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories.
Undecorated by so much as even a chamfer or a rounded edge, it was stoutly built and profoundly uncomfortable.
I soon outdid Korneff and he entrusted me with all the ornamental work, the acanthus leaves, the broken roses for those who died in their tender years, such Christian symbols as XP or INRI, the flutes and beads, the eggs and anchors, chamfers and double chamfers.
In that business,such rare situations were digitally chamfered by the programmers with what usually worked.
Her cheekbone was represented by a rounded spur, and the spur blended almost imperceptibly with the chamfered rim of her cheek.
On the left breast of their loose black tunics was a white circle containing two overlapping horizontal bars with chamfered ends - the house badge of the TohYota family.
Behind the chamfered windows the sun was obscured by drifting wreaths of grey smoke, and the silence filled with the crackling of flames.
Its chamfered snout made a little circling motion like a clerk's pencil just about to write.
They drove down Bellevue Avenue and turned in between the chamfered wooden gate-posts surmounted by cast-iron lamps which marked the approach to the Welland villa.
Saddletrees eaten bare of their rawhide coverings and weathered white as bone, a light chamfering of miceteeth along the edges of the wood.
He was now lying face up, modelled perfectly into the beach by a chamfering and moulding of precipitated sand.
The rumor of floods chamfering the rusty plains, grooving the reddish black slurry floors with the toilings of water, fans out and melts away into the dark amber glass of alien mantle beds.
Smooth surfaces with extremely accurate chamfers join enormous squared stones which are held together with copper clamps.
The lanceolate windows, the time-eaten arch-stones and chamfers, the orientation of the axis, the misty chestnut work of the rafters, referred to no exploded fortifying art or worn-out religious creed.
He brought forward the parting tool and parted off the piece one and a half inches long down to a diameter of about a quarter of an inch, and chamfered the small end shape roughly by the careful manipulation of a knife tool in the four-tool post.