from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The angle or inclination of a line or surface that meets another at any angle but 90°.
- n. Two rules joined together as adjustable arms used to measure or draw angles of any size or to fix a surface at an angle. Also called bevel square.
- transitive v. To cut at an inclination that forms an angle other than a right angle: beveled the edges of the table.
- intransitive v. To be inclined; slant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90 degree angle.
- v. To give a canted edge to a surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
- adj. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
- adj. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
- transitive v. To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
- intransitive v. To deviate or incline from an angle of 90°, as a surface; to slant.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The obliquity or inclination of a particular surface of a solid body to another surface of the same body; the angle contained by two adjacent sides of anything, as of a timber used in ship-building. When this angle is acute it is called an under bevel (or beveling), and when obtuse a standing bevel.
- n. An instrument used by mechanics for drawing angles and for adjusting the abutting surfaces of work to the same inclination.
- n. A piece of type-metal nearly type-high, with a beveled edge, used by stereotypers to form the flange on the sides of the plates.
- n. Same as bevel-angle.
- n. In heraldry, an angular break in any right line.
- Having the form of a bevel; aslant; sloping; out of the perpendicular; not upright: used figuratively by Shakspere.
- To cut to a bevel-angle: as, to bevel a piece of wood.
- To incline toward a point or from a direct line; slant or incline off to a bevel-angle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel
- n. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
- n. a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
A bevel is the portion of metal, sometimes called the lip, that will be welded to another portion of metal.
If both are of the same diameter, they are called bevel gears; if of different diameters, miter gears.
The bevel is a depression round the entire side of the stone, which faces outwards, and may be effected either by a sloping cut which removes the right-angle from the edge, or by two cuts, one perpendicular and the other horizontal, which take out from the edge a rectangular bar or plinth.
It came to pass, therefore, that he was forced to make all the stones irregular in shape, preparing them with great labour by means of the pifferello, which is the instrument otherwise called the bevel-square; and this made the work so clumsy, that, as will be related in the Life of Bandinelli, it has been difficult to bring it to such a form as might be in harmony with the rest.
“Plus, they were going for some kind of bevel effect at the top of that banner sign,” he slapped the dust from his gloves and tucked them in his back pocket.
"On a king bolt," he said, occasionally consulting his notes, "runs a pivot in bevel which is kept in place by a small hair-spring, which spring fits loosely on the Conkling Shaft."
- Areas of text can be selected, and different attributes such as bevel, color, fonts, textures, animation and text settings applied
I think you want a Chamfer feature for the "bevel"
On some guns the bevel at the mouth of the chamber was virtually non-existent and would cause the bullet to hit the square edge of the chamber mouth.
Like Mesoamerican warriors we bevel through a wedge in the dense vegetation to a small lake within the lake, where the water temperature increases to near boiling, and here we strip and take quick dips in water we hope offers some sort of healing.