Definition of "bevel" [bev•el]

• The angle or inclination of a line or surface that meets another at any angle but 90°. (noun)
• Two rules joined together as adjustable arms used to measure or draw angles of any size or to fix a surface at an angle. Also called bevel square. (noun)
• To cut at an inclination that forms an angle other than a right angle: beveled the edges of the table. (verb-transitive)
• To be inclined; slant. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A bevel is the portion of metal, sometimes called the lip, that will be welded to another portion of metal."
• "If both are of the same diameter, they are called bevel gears; if of different diameters, miter gears."
• "The bevel is a depression round the entire side of the stone, which faces outwards, and may be effected either by a sloping cut which removes the right-angle from the edge, or by two cuts, one perpendicular and the other horizontal, which take out from the edge a rectangular bar or plinth."