bezel
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 5
Definition of bezel
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
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noun
- The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
- The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
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The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
““There,” she went on, “it must be one like to it, and yet never did I see one like to it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much. But the scarab that I knew was not set thus in the bezel of a ring.”
- The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.
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The area on the front of a computing device surrounding the display.
“Modern smartphones have very thin bezels.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French bisel, a dialectal variant of biseau (“sloping edge”), a variation on bijou (“jewel”), itself from Breton bisou, bizou (“ring worn on the finger”), from biz (“finger”). Unrelated to similar bevel, which is of a different French origin.
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