(n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
(n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of certain cations present in hemolymph and alimentary tract tissues of healthy and diseased European chafer larvae and the spores of Bacillus popilliae collected from diseased hemolymph.
Chamfer
Definition:
(n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
(v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
(v. t.) To make a chamfer on.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somehow, everything we produced had a decidedly 1970s feel, a look formed by both the number of chamfered blocks in the set, and the inescapable desire to make everything symmetrical as you stack floor upon floor.
(2) Although the dentin bonding agents tend to accumulate on chamfers, thereby increasing their thickness to 200-300 microns, the method looks promising as a simple way to protect the pulp from the consequences of microleakage.
(3) A chamfer with a bevel, a shoulder with a bevel, or chamfer preparations are not suited to this technique.
(4) The crown margin designs taught most often were the flat shoulder, the 45-degree bevel shoulder, and the chamfer.
(5) This study evaluated chamfered and beveled preparations for Class IV restorations of lesions with microfilled and macrofilled composite resin.
(6) Serial radiographic analyses demonstrate progressive narrowing of all of the chamfered cylinder design and less in hemispherical design with screw fixation.
(7) This study tested three different types of crown margin preparations--a chamfer, a shoulder, and a shoulder plus a bevel to determine whether or not the margin preparation could affect microleakage.
(8) Facial and lingual chamfer margins were placed in enamel, mesial and distal in dentin and cementum, and castings were made in Rexillium III alloy and were then cemented with a standardized technique.
(9) This study indicated that the resin bonded cast fixed partial denture with the lingual chamfer margin and mesial rest was the design to be chosen.
(10) Group I consisted of 43 restorations placed without any tooth preparation; Group II consisted of 72 restorations placed using a chamfer preparation.
(11) The margin designs were rounded-shoulder, rounded-shoulder with a bevel, and a chamfer.
(12) On the acetabular side, both the cementless hemispherical with screw-type adjuvant fixation, or the chamfered cylinder designs, used primarily with the UCLA porous surface replacements, but also with stem-type devices, appear to achieve best short-term results, while the entire variety of screw rings are disappointing.
(13) With 76 different types of Lego bricks scattered across the table, from flat baseplates to chamfered wedge-shaped blocks and lots of tiny pieces with nipples and sockets sprouting in all directions, the challenge was to know where to begin.
(14) These included the use of thin metal copings (0.1 and 0.2 mm), a chamfer preparation, an alloy with relatively poor creep resistance, and a large thermal contraction mismatch between the alloy and porcelain layers.
(15) The accepted marginal design indicated by manufacturers for ceramic jacket crowns is the 90 degrees full shoulder with a rounded gingival-axial line angle or a deep chamfer.
(16) The weakest restorations were observed when a 0.8-mm chamfer finish line (66.8 kg) was used.
(17) Seventy extracted intact, non-carious maxillary central incisors, of approximately the same size, were collected and randomly divided into the following seven groups: 90 degrees butt joint (control)), 1 and 2 mm 45 degrees bevels, 1 and 2 mm 60 degrees bevels, and 1 and 2 mm chamfer margins.
(18) There was no significant difference in marginal fit between the shoulder and the chamfer configuration in every luting material examined.
(19) The coping and crown dimensions were based on a prepared maxillary central incisor with a facial shoulder and a lingual chamfer.
(20) The experiments were conducted in the following manner: Ten pieces of full cast crowns were constructed by a conventional procedure with 12% Au-Ag-Pd alloy and each test-piece was cemented alternately by zinc phosphate cement on a master die (stainless steel) with a chamfer margin.