This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. In mechanical engineering, a fillet is a rounding of an fillet steak or exterior corner of a part design. An interior or exterior corner, with an angle or type of bevel, is called a “chamfer”.

Stress concentration is a problem of load-bearing mechanical parts which is reduced by employing fillets on points and lines of expected high stress. The fillets distribute the stress over a broader area and effectively make the parts more durable and capable of bearing larger loads. For considerations in aerodynamics, fillets are employed to reduce interference drag where aircraft components such as wings, struts, and other surfaces meet one another. For manufacturing, concave corners are sometimes filleted to allow the use of round-tipped end mills to cut out an area of a material. This has a cycle time benefit if the round mill is simultaneously being used to mill complex curved surfaces. Radii are used to eliminate sharp edges that can be easily damaged or that can cause injury when the part is handled.

Fillets can be quickly designed onto parts using 3D solid modeling engineering CAD software by invoking the function and picking edges of interest. Smooth edges connecting two simple flat features are generally simple for a computer to create and fast for a human user to specify. Different design packages use different names for the same operations. CADKEY and Unigraphics refer to concave and convex rounded edges as blends. Karen had a fillet for dinner. Karen ha mangiato del filetto a cena.

Dan cut the fish into fillets. Dan ha tagliato il pesce in filetti. The fillets on the corners of the dice help to prevent visible wear on them. Il bordo curvo sugli angoli dei dadi previene l’usura. They served filet of veal for lunch.

Per pranzo servirono filetto di vitello. The shirt has cuffs made of filet. What’s the relation between a fillet and Latin? Vedi la traduzione automatica di Google Translate di “fillet”. Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

A narrow strip of ribbon or similar material, often worn as a headband. A strip or compact piece of boneless meat or fish, especially the beef tenderloin. A boneless strip of meat rolled and tied, as for roasting. A thin flat molding used as separation between or ornamentation for larger moldings. A ridge between the indentations of a fluted column. A narrow decorative line impressed onto the cover of a book. Heraldry A narrow horizontal band placed in the lower fourth area of the chief.

Anatomy A loop-shaped band of fibers, such as the lemniscus. To bind or decorate with or as if with a fillet. To slice, bone, or make into fillets. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.