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Webster 1913 Edition
Kerf
Kerf
,Noun.
A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.
Webster 1828 Edition
Kerf
KERF
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Kerf
Kerf
kerf
kerf
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English
Noun
kerf (plural kerfs)
- The groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision.
- 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
- They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a kerf in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep.
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- The width of the groove made while cutting.
- 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
- Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
- 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
- Distance between diverging saw teeth
Translations
the groove or slit cut in the workpiece
distance between diverging saw teeth
Related terms
Verb
kerf (third-person singular simple present kerfs, present participle kerfing, simple past and past participle kerfed)
- To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.
References
- kerf in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 (Supplement)
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