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machining

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Machining is shaping metal by cutting it on a machine. Send it out for machining.

It removes material rather than adding it, so everything starts oversized. Machining to a thousandth of an inch is routine and was miraculous a century ago.

Cameronm125 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of machining

  1. 1nounmachiningShaping metal by cutting it on a machine.C1

    “The machining took nine hours for one part.”

machining is a process.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle French

    machine

  2. English

    machine

  3. English, today

    machining

machine Borrowed from Middle French machine. Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from grc-dor μᾱχᾰνᾱ́, cognate with grc-att μηχᾰνή (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Factory & Manufacturing

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machining in the wild

  • Extremely hard materials like carbides, ceramics, titanium alloys and heat treated tool steels that are very difficult to machine using conventional machining can be precisely machined by EDM.

    Electrical discharge machining

  • CAM (computer-aided manufacturing), also known as computer-aided modeling or computer-aided machining is the use of software to control machine tools in the manufacturing of work pieces.

    Computer-aided manufacturing

  • A person who specializes in machining is called a machinist.

    Machining

  • As a commercial venture, machining is generally performed in a machine shop, which consists of one or more workrooms containing primary machine tools.

    Machining

  • Sandvik AB is a Swedish multinational engineering company specializing in products and services for mining, rock excavation, rock drilling, rock processing (crushing and screening), metal cutting and machining.

    Sandvik

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the machine family

machine

machining — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others