Glossary · term

Machining

Workshop

Aliases
machined, machinist
Domain
Workshop

Definition

Cutting metal to size by removing chips — turning, milling, drilling, grinding. How a part gets from roughly the right shape to within a hundredth of a millimetre, and why a forged part is stronger than a machined one.

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