bevel : Idioms & Phrases
A bevel angle
- any angle other than one of 90°.
Webster 1913
bevel gear
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noun gears that mesh at an angle
pinion and ring gear; pinion and crown wheel.
WordNet
Bev"el gear`
Definitions
(Mech.) A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
Webster 1913
bevel square
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noun a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
bevel.
WordNet
Bevel wheel
- a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.
Webster 1913
Skew gearing , ∨ Skew bevel gearing
(Mach.) , toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the faces of the gears.