chamfer
/ˈtʃamfə
/verb [with object]
(In carpentry) cut away (a right-angled edge or corner) to make a symmetrical sloping edge: (as adjective chamfered) a neat chamfered edge...
- The front corners are more chamfered, the headlights cut into the bumper, flanking a lower front grille.
- The straight marlborough legs are chamfered on the inside corners to make them look less blocky and massive when viewed from an angle.
- The scribed outline on the back of the splat of this chair, set about one quarter of an inch from the edge, may have been a guide for chamfering the splat after it was sawn to shape.
noun
A symmetrical sloping surface at an edge or corner.There are unfortunate chamfers on the back corners of the plan to allow for rights of light of neighbouring buildings....
- The planks have to be drilled and riveted together side by side with a diagonal chamfer at their ends.
- Plus, surface tension is created without resorting to lines and chamfers.
Origin
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).