What does bevelled mean?

Question

What does bevelled mean?

Answer 1

Cut at an inclination that forms an angle other than a right angle:

Examples -

Bevelled the edges of the table.

A mirror with a bevelled edge.

a surface that does not form a right angle with adjacent surfaces.

Answer 2

having a sloping edge or surface:

"A picture frame often has bevelled edges."

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Having a bevel, especially at an edge

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bevelled

1.Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

[1913 Webster]

2.(Min.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.

[1913 Webster].

Answer 3

Bevelled usually means at an angle. When a piece of furniture has a bevelled edge its edge is finished off with a gentle slope and not a straight drop.  You could also think of it as a like a kerb on the side of a road. Some kerbs rise directly from the road, others are bevelled ie you could drive your car up the slope of them.

Answer 4

Not formed at a right angle.