What is "milling cutter"

Milling \Mill"ing\, n. The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill.

High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product.

Low milling, milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.

Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.

Milling machine, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.

Milling tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

n. (context mechanical engineering English) A rotary cutting tool typically used in milling machines

Milling cutters are cutting tools typically used in milling machines or machining centres to perform milling operations (and occasionally in other machine tools). They remove material by their movement within the machine (e.g., a ball nose mill) or directly from the cutter's shape (e.g., a form tool such as a hobbing cutter).