(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has a smaller bezel (43% less), and is much thinner (7.5mm v 9.4mm) When you hold it it will be dramatically different experience.
(2) LG is one of the world's biggest suppliers of LCD and OLED screens, and has been pioneering so-called "edge-to-edge" smartphone screens that have very little in the way of bezel or body either side or surrounding the screen.
(3) The 9.7in iPad is expected to get a thinner body and bezels, to match the design of the iPad mini.
(4) I saw my father, larger than life, and the Irish landscape, skewed and magical, framed by curved, shining bezels.
(5) Now the iPad Air takes its cues from the mini – a thinner bezel around the screen (but with thumb detection so you don't accidentally activate it), an almost-vertical profile (but gently rounded), and so little weight that you might think it's just a large mini.
(6) The round screen has virtually no bezel, meeting the aluminium casing at the edges, but does have a squared-off bottom that resembles a flat tyre, where some of the electronic components are placed to operate the screen.
(7) The video for the 9.7in iPad suggests that the new model - updating the one released last October at the same time as the iPad mini - will be significantly thinner, and about 17cm wide rather than 18.5cm for the older model, because the bezel on the longer sides of the screen has been made thinner - as on the iPad mini .
(8) It is being 20% thinner, with with a slimmer bezel around the high-resolution screen, and a 64-bit processor with M7 co-processor.
(9) The new device is likely to feature a redesigned chassis , taking cues from the iPad mini in the form of a smaller bezel, and from the iPhone 5 in the form of an anodised aluminium back.
(10) Unbox Therapy has a hands-on video with what it claims is the “space grey” version of the iPad 5, featuring a black front bezel.
(11) The soft-touchback and thumb-wide screen bezel mean you don't have to worry about it slipping out of your grasp, or your fingers accidentally activating the touchscreen.
(12) The iPad, which already includes a high-quality 'retina' screen, is thought to be much thinner and with a slimmer 'bezel', or frame more like the latest iPad mini.
Flange
Definition:
(n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
(n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
(v. t.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
(v. i.) To be bent into a flange.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Velcro band attached to two lateral flanges keeps the catheter in place.
(2) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
(3) Some of the patients of the latter group used guide flange prostheses during the postoperative period to return the mandible to the centric position.
(4) The impression materials were applied to the denture flanges by two different methods.
(5) The article generalizes experience in anesthesiological management of 178 elderly and old-aged patients with fractures of the proximal segment of the femur in endoprosthesis with a Mura-Cito prosthesis, 3-flange nail, Shesterni's fixation device, arched nail, etc.
(6) (3) A higher risk of proximal occlusion with flanged ventricular catheter.
(7) A subaortic annular aneurysm involving three fourths of the annular circumference was repaired with a valved conduit to which a Teflon felt flange was attached.
(8) There were statistically significant differences in the flange form measurement distances among the different materials and method of application of the material.
(9) With the next 119 sockets, 111 of which were flanged, the eburnated and subchondral bone was preserved and multiple small anchor holes were used.
(10) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
(11) A three-flanged nail or three screws were used randomly.
(12) Localized cytoplasmic expansions are often present near the periphery of these flanges.
(13) In many places erythrocytes were virtually absent from the blood laguna, which was filled with the flanges of pillar cells.
(14) No components have migrated despite the absence of adjunct fixation mechanisms such as screws and flanges.
(15) The design combined the use of a two-part cobalt-chromium lingual plate bolted together by an anterior flange which replaced missing lower anterior teeth.
(16) Two bovine enamel blocks were placed in each buccal flange of the dental appliances of five volunteers.
(17) The devices chosen for study were the E-A-R expandable foam plug, the Willson Sound Silencer premolded vinyl plug with double flange, the Bilsom Soft polyethylene encapsulated glass fiber plug, and the MSA Ear Defender (V-51R) premolded vinyl plug with single flange.
(18) In the group with the microporous Monostrut mitral valve, 19 animals were put to death and examined: (1) The endothelialized covering over the suture ring, thinner when carbon coated, continued over the microporous flange, tapering off in the center of the orifice in all 19 valves on the ventricular side and in 14 of the 19 valves on the atrial side; (2) the center of the orifice and the struts were never completely covered by endothelialized tissue because of high flow; (3) there was an increased incidence of small thrombus formation on the disc-contacting microporous surface of both inflow and outflow struts.
(19) The only significant difference between the groups was the angle overheading to the central point of left coronary orifice anastomosed with intermediate tube from the extensive line of the prosthetic flange obtained in the left anterior oblique views on the angiography.
(20) To a basic cup designed with pods, four different types of flange designs were added: a cup without a flange, a cup having a flange with 12 scallops, a cup having a flange with three scallops, and a cup having a continuous flange.