What is another word for Chamfering?

Pronunciation: [t͡ʃˈamfəɹɪŋ] (IPA)

Chamfering is the process of creating a beveled or sloped edge on a material, often done to make it easier to handle or to create a smoother finish on a product. Other synonyms for chamfering include bevelling, grinding, tapering, sloping, and rounding. Bevelling is particularly relevant in the context of angled cuts made to join two materials, such as with a miter joint. Grinding is a common method used to shape metal and wood materials while tapering is the gradual reduction in size of a piece of wood or metal. Sloping is used more broadly to describe the process of creating any type of slope or angle on a material. Rounding is often used to describe the process of creating a uniform, rounded edge.

What are the hypernyms for Chamfering?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Chamfering

A cavalier of elegant carriage, spurred and plumed; mounted on a superb steed, of jet-black colour-his counter clouted with flakes of snow-white froth loosened from his Chamfering lips.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
This causes the tooth to wear, but the teeth may be caused to each take a proportion of the cut by Chamfering them as at B in the figure, which will relieve the front tooth of a great part of its duty and let the following teeth perform duty, and thus preserve the sharpness of the cutting edges.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose
1857, Chamfering off not more than three threads, and the chamfered teeth must then be filed, just bringing the front edges up to a cutting edge, but filing nothing off them, the reamed chamfer acting as a guide to file them by.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose

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