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bevelment|ˈbɛvəlmɛnt| Also bevillment. [f. as prec. + -ment.] The process of bevilling; spec. in Cryst., the replacement of the edge of a crystal by two similar planes equally inclined to the adjacent faces.
1804R. Jameson Mineral. I. 204 There is formed a four-sided prism bevilled on both extremities,..and the edge of the bevillment is truncated. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. xvi. 313 The truncatures of their [i.e. crystals'] angles, and the bevelment of their edges. |