milling machine
a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter ) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
Origin of milling machine
1- Also called miller.
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How to use milling machine in a sentence
The milling machine used there has a tendency to “goo up over time—to get dirty.”
How AI will revolutionize manufacturing | Jason Sparapani | September 29, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThere, in the shelter of a milling machine, he paused and crouched motionless as a cat.
White Fire | Roy J. SnellIn the coining-room the planchets are first given to the milling-machine.
To make a cutter of this kind is more difficult than to make a saw, and to do it readily a milling machine would be required.
It has been said that "but for the milling machine, there would have been no such thing as interchangeable manufacturing."
It is said that a man by the name of Bodmer, in Manchester, England, had made a milling machine in 1824.
British Dictionary definitions for milling machine
a machine tool in which a horizontal arbor or vertical spindle rotates a cutting tool above a horizontal table, which is used to move a workpiece
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