Usually means: Sharp edge where surfaces meet.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. arris: Merriam-Webster
  2. arris: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arris: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arris: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Arris, arris: Wordnik
  6. arris: Wiktionary
  7. arris: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. arris: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. arris: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Arris, arris: Dictionary.com
  11. Arris: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Arris: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. arris: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Arris: Rhymezone
  15. Arris: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. arris: FreeDictionary.org
  17. arris: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. arris: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. arris: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ARRIS: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arris: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. arris: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. arris: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. arris: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (arris)

noun:  A sharp edge or ridge formed by the intersection of two surfaces
noun:  (architecture) A sharp edge or ridge formed by the intersection of two curved surfaces
noun:  (archaeology) A ridge formed on the surface of flaked stone, such as an arrowhead or hand axe, as the result of the intersection of two or more flake removals.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) Buttocks, arse.

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