Definition of Knife edge

1. Noun. The sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife.

Exact synonyms: Cutting Edge
Group relationships: Blade, Edge Tool
Generic synonyms: Edge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Knife Edge

knickered
knickerless
knickerlessness
knickers
knickknack
knickknackatory
knickknackery
knickknacks
knicks
knife
knife-edge
knife-handle
knife-rest crystal
knife and fork
knife blade
knife edge (current term)
knife fight
knife needle
knife pleat
knife rest
knife roll
knife switch
knife thrust
knifeboard
knifeboards
knifed
knifeedge
knifegrinder
knifegrinders
knifeless

Literary usage of Knife edge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mechanics: A Textbook for Engineers by James Ellsworth Boyd (1921)
"When the third knife-edge, which weighs 0.45 pound, rests on a platform ... The plate is supported on a knife-edge 0.1 inch from the left edge and on a ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Göttingen uses for small balances generally) is indicated.1 lu all balances the axis of rotation is realised in a straight knife-edge ground to a prism of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Supposing such a balance were charged with F — p', + p' from tie left, and P" — p", + p" from the right knife-edge,—and it is clear that in this'case also ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"A plane bearing necessarily involves an arrestment so constructed that, besides doing its primary duty, it assigns to each point of the central knife-edge a ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1894)
"of an inch thick, but that a decent steel knife-edge is not ... the advantage of transferring the stress, from the knife-edge to the rod is at once evident. ..."

6. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey, James Aston (1919)
"31 shows a form of crossed knife-edge suspension which has been successfully ... A Crossed Knife- edge Suspension for Testing Concrete Cylinder in Tension. ..."

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