грань — meaning in English

English meaning

• bound adj Obliged to do something, often by law, duty, or promise.
• brink noun The edge of something steep or dangerous, such as a cliff.
• edge noun The outer boundary or line where something ends.
• face noun The front of the head, including the eyes, nose, and mouth.
• facet noun One of the flat, polished surfaces cut into a gemstone.
• verge noun The point right before something happens; the brink or edge.

Senses

грань is used for these senses in English:

• bezel The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
• bound (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• edge (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
• edge (also, figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
• edge A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
• face (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
• facet Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
• facet One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.

bound — full definition

1. adj Obliged to do something, often by law, duty, or promise.
2. adj Heading toward a particular place.
3. adj Certain or very likely to happen.
4. noun A limit or boundary, often used in the plural.
5. verb To leap or spring, moving forward in jumps.

brink — full definition

1. noun The edge of something steep or dangerous, such as a cliff.
2. noun The point right before something (often something serious) happens.

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