bezel

See also: Bezel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bisel, a dialectal variant of biseau (“sloping edge”), a variation on bijou (“jewel”), itself from Breton bisou, bizou (“ring worn on the finger”), from biz (“finger”).

Unrelated to similar bevel, which is of a different French origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛz.əl/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: bezzle

Noun

bezel (plural bezels)

1. The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
2. The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
3. The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

   Synonym: collet

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     “There,” she went on, “it must be one like to it, and yet never did I see one like to it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much. But the scarab that I knew was not set thus in the bezel of a ring.

4. (computing) The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.
5. (computing) The area on the front of a computing device surrounding the display.

   Modern smartphones have very thin bezels.

Derived terms

• bezelless

 

Translations

the sloping edge or face of a cutting tool

• Bulgarian: скосеният край на длето (skosenijat kraj na dleto)
• Finnish: viiste (fi)
• German: geschliffene Schneidefläche f, Fase (de) f, Facette (de) f

the oblique side or face of a cut gem

• Bulgarian: фасет (bg) m (faset)
• Finnish: viiste (fi) (side), taulu (fi) (face)
• German: obere Hauptfacette f
• Russian: грань (ru) f (granʹ), фасе́т (ru) m (fasét)

the rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 盤座／盘座 (pánzuò)

• Dutch: vatting (nl) f, montuur (nl)
• Finnish: viiste (fi)
• French: chaton (fr) m, monture (fr) f
• German: Fassung (de) f, Lünette (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: σφενδόνη f (sphendónē)

• Italian: incastonatura (it) f, castone (it) m
• Latin: pāla f
• Ottoman Turkish: قاش (kaş)
• Russian: гнездо́ (ru) n (gnezdó)
• Thai: หนามเตย (th) (nǎam-dtəəi)

the panel that covers the front of a computer case or the panel covering each drive bay

• Finnish: etupaneeli
• German: Frontblende f, Blende (de) f
• Russian: фальшпане́ль f (falʹšpanélʹ)

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Translations to be checked

• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 斜面 (ja) (しゃめん, shamen)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 날의 사면 (narui samyeon)

See also

• beazle
• bevel
• collet

References

• “bezel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition