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CHAMPFER CHAMFER

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 824 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHAMPFER

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CHAMPFER CHAMFER

CHAMFER Or CHAUMFER (Fr. chanfrein; possibly from

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LAT

Lat. cant us, corner, and frangere, to break), an architectural

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TERM

term; when the edge or

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ARRIS (Fr. areste, or arete)

arris of any

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WORK

work is cut off at an

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ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of 45° in a small degree, it is said to be " chamfered," while it would be " canted " if on a large

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scale . The

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CHAMFER, CHAMPFER

chamfer is much used in

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MEDIEVAL

medieval work, and is sometimes

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PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, sometimeshollowed out and sometimes moulded .

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