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Side views of a bevel (above) and a chamfer (below). A bevelled edge (UK) or beveled edge (US) is an edge of a structure that is not perpendicular to the faces of the piece. . The words bevel and chamfer overlap in usage; in general usage, they are often interchanged, while in technical usage, they may be differentiated as shown in the image on the ri
A chamfer may sometimes be regarded as a type of bevel, and the terms are often used interchangeably. In furniture-making, a lark's tongue is a chamfer which ends short of a piece in a gradual outward curve, leaving the remainder of the edge as a right angle. Chamfers may be formed in either inside or outside adjoining faces of an object or room.
The art historian Jennifer Raab of Yale University describes it as inherently contradictory: "it can delineate difference or emphasize unity". [2] She furthers that "the detail always points away from itself to something else–to other parts of a picture, to the work of art as a whole".
Underside of a groin vault showing the arris. In architecture, an arris is the sharp edge formed by the intersection of two surfaces, such as the corner of a masonry unit; [1] the edge of a timber in timber framing; the junction between two planes of plaster or any intersection of divergent architectural details.
A building's surface detailing, inside and outside, often includes decorative moulding, and these often contain ogee-shaped profiles—consisting (from low to high) of a concave arc flowing into a convex arc, with vertical ends; if the lower curve is convex and higher one concave, this is known as a Roman ogee, although frequently the terms are used interchangeably and for a variety of other ...
Bezel is akin to French biseau, meaning bevel or chamfer. [4] The noun meaning "slope of the edge of a cutting tool," and also "groove by which a stone is held in its setting" was from the 1610s. The verb meaning "grind (a tool) down to an edge" is from 1670s. [8] The noun meaning "oblique face of a gem" is from c. 1840. [8]
Chamfer A transitional edge, often 45 degrees, formed by paring down an arris diagonally. [9] Some buildings may be chamfered such that the base is octagonal. Chancel (also Presbytery) In church architecture, the space around the altar at the east end of a traditional Christian church building, including the choir and sanctuary. Chandrashala
In an entablature in classical architecture, it is the lowest part, below the frieze and cornice.The word is derived from the Greek and Latin words arche and trabs combined to mean "main beam".