chamfer

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A chamfer is a surface produced by cutting away an arris.

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  1. transitive verb To cut off the edge or corner of; bevel.
  2. transitive verb To cut a groove in; flute.
  3. noun A flat surface made by cutting off the edge or corner of a block of wood or other material.
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  • An application of oxygen cutting in which a chamfer or groove is formed. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Cut to the length desired and chamfer both ends inside and out side (de-burr it). —  SurvivalBlog.com
  • Gavrila & Philomen dataset containing over 1800 annotated human images with [8] take a more direct approach, extracting edge images and a large range of pose variations and backgrounds. matching them to a set of learned exemplars using chamfer distance. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Gavrila & Philomen dataset containing over 1800 annotated human images with Shape Context approach, extracting edge images and Belongie et al. 2002 - [8] take a more direct a large range of pose variations and backgrounds. matching them to a set of learned exemplars using chamfer distance. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • PCA-SIFT set of learned exemplars using chamfer Ke & and backgrounds. matching them to a distance. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. Probably back-formation from chamfering, from French chanfrein, bevelled edge, from past participle of Old French chanfreindre, to bevel : chant, edge (from Latin canthus, iron tire; see cant1) + fraindre, to break (from Latin frangere; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Also chamfret, early modern English chamfre, chanfer, from Old French chamfrein, chamfrain, French chanfrein (= Spanish chaflan), a chamfer; origin uncertain; perhaps a particular use of chanfrein, a chamfron: see chamfron.
  2. from chamfer, n.
 

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