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thread rolling

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noun

  1. engineering the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool

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I’m going to keep this thread rolling under the tag “energy quest.”

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2010

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