What's the difference between chaffer and chamfer?

Chaffer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who chaffs.
  • (n.) Bargaining; merchandise.
  • (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
  • (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
  • (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.
  • (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words.

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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.