Bezel (jewellery)

[1] Rings are normally worn to display bezels on the upper or outer side of the finger.

[4] On a cell phone or tablet, it is the back surface that frames the LCD screen.

; Modern French biseau), cognate with Spanish and Portuguese bisel; of uncertain origin, perhaps literally "a stone with two angles," from Vulgar Latin *bis-alus, from bis- "twice" (from PIE root *dwo- "two") + ala "wing, side" (see alar).

[4] The noun meaning "slope of the edge of a cutting tool," and also "groove by which a stone is held in its setting" was from the 1610s.

With a clear, faceted stone, such as a diamond, a shallow groove is cut into the bezel itself.

Bezel settings use a type of elevated collar which wraps the rim of the diamond in a complete metal edging.

An extension of the term bezel setting can refer to a rotatable rim on a clock or watch used to indicate certain data such as elapsed time.