Definitions for knife-edge

knife-edge knife edge

Knife-Edge is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in knife-edge (-deeefgikn).

Definitions for knife-edge

noun

  1. the cutting edge of a knife.
  2. anything very sharp.
  3. a wedge on the fine edge of which a scale beam, pendulum, or the like, balances or oscillates.

Origin of knife-edge

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for knife-edge

It's tough; you've shown me that, for a knife edge bites into it with difficulty.

The plates were reduced to a knife edge in line of fracture.

The knife edge of the ridge is generally not much over a foot wide.

Laplace had already shown that the knife edge must be regarded as a cylinder and not as a mere line of support.

Do not have the teeth too sharp, and if necessary, rub off the knife edge with F emery-cloth.

Their music puts, as it were, a knife edge upon the heat of the day.

Thus, the mass of the suspending apparatus could be neglected in the theory of motion of the pendulum about the knife edge.

The ridge had narrowed to a knife edge, and for a few yards it was utterly impossible to advance in any other way.

Gummed and varnished stock are likely to break small pieces off the knife edge.

Use a light touch, slope the knifeblade and slice with knife edge away from you (Figure 1).

Word Value for knife-edge
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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