Usually means: Joint where two materials meet.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word seam:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. seam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. seam: Merriam-Webster
  3. seam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. seam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. seam: Collins English Dictionary
  6. seam: Vocabulary.com
  7. Seam, seam: Wordnik
  8. seam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. seam: Wiktionary
  10. seam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. seam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. seam: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. seam: Dictionary.com
  14. seam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. seam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Seam (band), Seam (geology), Seam (sewing), Seam (unit), Seam, The Seam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Seam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. seam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. seam: Rhymezone
  20. seam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. seam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. seam: FreeDictionary.org
  23. seam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. seam: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Seam: Energy Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. seam: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SEAM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. seam: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. seam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. seam: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  5. SEAM: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Seam: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
noun:  A suture.
noun:  (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
noun:  (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
noun:  (construction, nautical) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
noun:  A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
noun:  (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
verb:  To put together with a seam.
verb:  To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
verb:  To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
verb:  To crack open along a seam.
verb:  (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
verb:  (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
noun:  (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
noun:  (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) Grease; tallow; lard.

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