miter joint

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noun

a joint, especially a butt joint, between two pieces of wood or the like, meeting at an angle in which each of the butting surfaces is cut to an angle equal to half the angle of junction.

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Origin of miter joint

First recorded in 1680–90

Words nearby miter joint

mitered, mitered jib, miterer, mitergate, miter gear, miter joint, miter post, miter saw, miter square, miterwort, mite typhus

How to use miter joint in a sentence

I went to his joint once, back when I was first hanging out in New York, doing plays.
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On the northern side of the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea, there is a village called Kijong-dong (기정동).
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You get vaccinated in the arm, you shouldn't have inflammation in the joint.
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“We are proud of the work we have done for our country,” Mitchell and Jessen have said in a joint statement.
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This past May, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal conducted a joint poll on body art.
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While his mother was cleaning the fish, Alila made a fire and cut the bamboos at every joint.
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The statutes usually prescribe how notice of the joint meeting shall be given.
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And on this night they produced the finished product of their joint work for the last several weeks.
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Nor can one of two joint inventors make application and secure the patent on assignment from the other; both must join.
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An Act was passed which gave to a joint stock company an absolute monopoly of lustrings for a term of fourteen years.
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