butt joint

1. 1.

   a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping

   Synonymsbutt

   Broaderjoint

   Narrowerbutt weldfish joint

Questions about butt joint

What does butt joint mean?

butt joint means "a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping".

What is another word for butt joint?

Close synonyms include butt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butt joint a common word?

butt joint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.