mitre joint

Questions about mitre joint

What is another word for mitre joint?

It depends which mitre joint you mean. In the sense “joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner”, the synonyms are miter joint, miter, mitre. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mitre joint?

WordNet records no antonym for mitre joint. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mitre joint come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mitre joint

• Full entry for mitre jointAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mitre jointWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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