rainure

Definitions of rainure
  1. noun
    a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together
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    type of:
    sillon
    a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
  2. noun
    a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
    synonyms: sillon
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    types:
    cannelure
    a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
    type of:
    bosse, empreinte, enfoncement
    a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
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