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Definition of Bezel
1. Noun. A sloping edge on a cutting tool.
Definition of Bezel
1. n. The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
Definition of Bezel
1. Noun. The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool ¹
2. Noun. The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting ¹
3. Noun. 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; the collet. ¹
4. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bezel
1. a slanted surface [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bezel
Literary usage of Bezel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"with ribbon hoop, with sessile square bezel and retrograde legend, ... Mr.
Fortnam has also a bronze ring with flat circular bezel and circular hoop, ..."
2. Karanòg: The Romano-Nubian Cemetery by Leonard Woolley, David Randall-MacIver (1910)
"Yellowish bronze alloy; flat oval bezel. Apis bull with disk between horns
advancing г. ... Iron; solid projecting bezel capped with yellowish bronze alloy. ..."
3. Catalogue of the finger rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the by Frederick Henry Marshall (1907)
"Hoop flat within, rounded without ; large convex oval bezel with engraved ...
Behind the figure a gold stud has been driven into the bezel ; the head of the ..."
4. Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East by Ormonde Maddock Dalton (1901)
"193 SILVER SIGNET, with flat channeled hoop and applied oval bezel rudely ...
BRONZE SIGNET, with plain hoop and oval bezel rudely engraved with a saint ..."
5. Herculaneum, Past, Present & Future by Charles Waldstein (1908)
"Ring ; fine gold wire ; perhaps relief of serpent on bezel. Diam., mill. 14. ...
Ring ; fish on bezel. Diam., mill. 13. Ring ; ear of corn incised on bezel. ..."
6. History of Art in Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1894)
"Gold ring with bezel. ing onwards above the horses, and turning round his head.
But the spectator conceived it at speed in front of the horses. ..."
7. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"The bezel is an oval quatrefoil, the hoop thick and with pronounced shoulders.
The second (A), smaller, is of the same type ; the atone a cabochon amethyst, ..."
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