Usually means: Indentation or cutout in edge.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word notch:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. notch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. notch: Merriam-Webster
  3. notch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. notch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. notch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. notch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Notch, notch: Wordnik
  8. notch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. notch: Wiktionary
  10. notch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. notch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. notch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. notch: Dictionary.com
  14. notch (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. notch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Notch (engineering), Notch (game designer), Notch (musician), Notch, The Notch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Notch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. notch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. notch: Rhymezone
  20. notch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. notch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. NOTCH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Notch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. notch: FreeDictionary.org
  25. notch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. notch: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. notch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. notch: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Notch: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. notch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. notch: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Notch: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Notch: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. notch, notch, notch, notch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Notch, notch: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Notch: Construction Glossary
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See notched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A V-shaped cut.
noun:  Such a cut, used for keeping a record.
noun:  An indentation.
noun:  A mountain pass; a defile.
noun:  (slang) The female primary sex organ, vulva.
noun:  (US slang) A woman.
noun:  (finance) A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
noun:  (informal) A level or degree.
noun:  (electronics) A portion of a mobile phone that overlaps the edge of the screen, used to house a camera, sensors etc. while maximizing screen space.
verb:  (transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
verb:  (transitive) To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
verb:  (transitive) To join by means of notches.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To achieve (something); to add to one's score or record of successes.
verb:  (transitive) To fit (an arrow) to a bow by means of the notch cut at the end of the arrow; to nock.

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