chamfers
Meaning of chamfers
- (in carpentry) cut away (a right-angled edge or corner) to make a symmetrical sloping edge.
a neat chamfered edge
plural noun
a symmetrical sloping surface at an edge or corner.
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘flute or furrow’): back-formation from chamfering, from French chamfrain, from chant ‘edge’ (see cant2) + fraint ‘broken’ (from Old French fraindre ‘break’, from Latin frangere ).
Information about chamfers
- The singular form of chamfers is: chamfer.
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Hyphenation of chamfers
cham-fers
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- chamfers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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