Usually means: Angled joint, often in woodworking.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word mitre:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mitre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mitre: Merriam-Webster
  3. mitre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mitre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mitre: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mitre: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mitre, mitre: Wordnik
  8. mitre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mitre: Wiktionary
  10. mitre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mitre: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mitre, mitre: Dictionary.com
  13. MITRE, Mitre (New Zealand), Mitre (disambiguation), Mitre, The Mitre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Mitre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mitre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mitre: Rhymezone
  17. Mitre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Mitre: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. mitre: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mitre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mitre: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mitre: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MITRE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mitre: Easton Bible
  2. Mitre: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Mitre: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. MITRE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mitre: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
noun:  The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
noun:  (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
noun:  A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
noun:  A gusset in sewing, etc.
noun:  (geometry, rare) A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
noun:  A mitre shell
verb:  To adorn with a mitre.
verb:  To unite at an angle of 45°.

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