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beveling

Variant of bevel

noun

  1. a tool consisting of a rule with a movable arm, used in measuring or marking angles and in fixing surfaces at an angle
  2. an angle other than a right angle
  3. sloping part or surface, as the angled edge of plate glass

adjective

sloped; beveled

transitive verb beveled or bevelled, beveling or bevelling

to cut to an angle other than a right angle

intransitive verb

to slope at an angle; slant

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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