MEANING
A flat angled face cut across an otherwise sharp edge.
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Words that belong together
- stone chamfer
- chamfered corner
On the page
A chamfer softened the stone corner.
The tool followed the narrow chamfer.
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Word forms
- Base
- chamfer
- Past tense
- chamfered
- Past participle
- chamfered
- Present participle
- chamfering
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular chamfer; plural chamfers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: chamfers.
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