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Design Terminology: What's the Difference Between a Bevel and a Bezel?
Correcting the Internet on proper usage of bevel/bezel while confusing the Internet on proper usage of bevel/chamfer...<sigh>. Both illustrations above are chamfers. Though laypeople may call every angled surface a bevel, woodworkers and masons know that an edge treatment bounded by two obtuse angles (commonly 135 degrees) is properly called a chamfer. A chamfer serves the same purposes as an external fillet. A bevel is used to form a sharp (acute angle) edge such as when making a miter/mitre or scarf joint, or a cutting tool such as an axe, knife or chisel.
DWEEZIL
The mis-use of the term ''Bezos'' might originate from the french translation ''Biseau'' : the exact translation for bevel.