Usually means: Joints where two materials meet.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. seams: Merriam-Webster
  2. seams: Collins English Dictionary
  3. seams: Vocabulary.com
  4. Seams, seams: Wordnik
  5. seams: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. seams: Wiktionary
  7. seams: Dictionary.com
  8. seams: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. SEAMS: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. seams: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seams: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seams: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SEAMS: Acronym Finder
  2. seams: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seams: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SEAMS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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Definitions from Wiktionary (seam)

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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