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Another word for bevel

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Noun
      1. A member of a Germanic people of the northern lowlands that settled in E England in the 5th cent. a.d.: the name England is from Englaland (land of the Angles), and English is from Englisc (of the Angles)
      2. A sharp or projecting corner
      3. A solid angle.
      1. A sloping thing or piece of ground.
      2. A bias:
      3. An oblique or inclined surface, line, direction, etc.; slope; incline
      1. The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.
      2. A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline:
      3. A piece of ground that is not flat or level; rising or falling ground; specif., a portion of the side of a hill or mountain
    See also:

    inclination

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Sentence Examples

  • In heraldry, a bevel is an angular break in a line.

  • Conical or Bevel and Disk WheelsFrom Principles III.

  • The pitch-circles of a pair of circular toothed wheels are sections of their pitch-surfaces, made for spur-wheels (that is, for wheels whose axes are parallel) by a plane at right angles to the axes, and for bevel wheels by a sphere described about the common apex.

  • If q be any variable co-ordinate defining the position or (in the case of a system of bodies) the configuration, the velocity of each particle at any instant will be proportional to 4, and the total kinetic energy may be expressed in the form 1/8A42, where A is in general a function of q The special case where both cones are right circular and a is constant is important ~n astronomy and also in mechanism (theory of bevel wheels).

  • constant; the line of contact is constant in position, and the rolling surfaces of the wheels are regular circular cones (when they are called bevel wheels); or one of a pair of wheels may have a flat disk for its rolling surface, as W2 in fig.

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