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Angular
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Apo
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), ap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Beak
noun · 78% connection
A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Bell crank
unknown · 78% connection
A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Bird's-mouth
noun · 78% connection
An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Block
verb · 78% connection
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Brilliant
adjective · 78% connection
A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendere…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Chipping
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Chisel
noun · 78% connection
A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usuall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Elevation
noun · 78% connection
The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Emplecton
noun · 78% connection
A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Face
verb · 78% connection
To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smoot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Fleche
noun · 78% connection
A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Half-moon
noun · 78% connection
An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Halve
verb · 78% connection
To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Hogback
noun · 78% connection
An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Hyperbola
noun · 78% connection
A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
Interfacial
adjective · 78% connection
Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surface, formed, cutting, away, arris.
