Usually means: Recessed to allow flat surface alignment.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. countersunk: Merriam-Webster
  2. countersunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. countersunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. countersunk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. countersunk: Vocabulary.com
  6. countersunk: Wordnik
  7. countersunk: Wiktionary
  8. Countersunk, countersunk: Dictionary.com
  9. Countersunk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. countersunk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Countersunk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. countersunk: FreeDictionary.org
  13. countersunk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. countersunk: Encyclopedia

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (countersunk)

▸ adjective:  (of a bolt or screw) That has a flat conical top allowing it to be inserted flush with a surface

Similar:
buttonhead, socketed, flat-bottomed, bottomed, flat-topped, flatmounted, slotted, obconical, tabular, univallate, more...

Opposite:
protruding, raised, elevated, above surface

Types:
flathead, Phillips, Torx, Robertson, Allen, square, triangle, star, hex, tri-wing, more...

Phrases:
countersunk hole, countersunk head, more...

Adjectives:
flat, obverse, cupshaped, other, oval, inner, marine, large

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Similar:
buttonhead, socketed, flat-bottomed, bottomed, flat-topped, flatmounted, slotted, obconical, tabular, univallate, more...

Opposite:
protruding, raised, elevated, above surface

Types:
flathead, Phillips, Torx, Robertson, Allen, square, triangle, star, hex, tri-wing, more...

Phrases:
countersunk hole, countersunk head, more...

Adjectives:
flat, obverse, cupshaped, other, oval, inner, marine, large



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