milling machine

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noun

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.

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Also called miller.

Origin of milling machine

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby milling machine

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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 Review
There, in the shelter of a milling machine, he paused and crouched motionless as a cat.
White Fire|Roy J. Snell
In the coining-room the planchets are first given to the milling-machine.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7.|Various
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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881|Various

It has been said that "but for the milling machine, there would have been no such thing as interchangeable manufacturing."
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration v. 2|Various
It is said that a man by the name of Bodmer, in Manchester, England, had made a milling machine in 1824.
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration v. 2|Various

British Dictionary definitions for milling machine

milling machine

noun

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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