Meaning of chamfer in English
Verb
chamferEtymology
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘flute or furrow’): back-formation from chamfering, from French chamfrain, from chant‘edge’ (see cant) + fraint‘broken’ (from Old French fraindre‘break’, from Latin frangere)Definitions
1. cut a bevel onExamples
- « shape to a bevel »
- « bevel the surface »
- 2. cut a furrow into a columns
Noun
chamferDefinitions
1. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees