Kerf is waste.
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Kerf
//kɜː(ɹ)f//
Synonyms for "kerf" (14 found)
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Translations
20 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- рязка noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
Finnish
3 entries- lovi noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- uurros noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- uurros noun (distance between diverging saw teeth)
French
1 entries- voie noun (distance between diverging saw teeth)
German
4 entries- Einschnitt noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- Fuge noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- Kerbe noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- Nut noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
Italian
1 entries- intaccatura noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
Russian
3 entries- зару́бка noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- надру́б noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- пропи́л noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
Slovene
3 entries- (u)rez noun (the groove or slit cut in the workpiece)
- zareza noun (distance between diverging saw teeth)
- širina reza žage noun (distance between diverging saw teeth)
Spanish
1 entries- traba noun (distance between diverging saw teeth)
Sample sentences
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They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a kerf in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep.
Source: wiktionary
1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
Source: wiktionary
1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
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