The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. A machine tool in which a rotating cutter is moved against the workpiece (or vice versa) in order to cut the latter to a desired shape.
WordNet
n. machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it [syn: miller]
Usage examples of "milling machine".
Diamond molds, electric arc furnace, numerically controlled milling machine—.
He had a Senior milling machine and a Boxford shaper, a large and a small drill press, and a vast array of tools ready to hand.
The robot arm of the milling machine removed the plutonium from its spindle and set it in an enclosed box.
He set the slide on a sturdy jig and used the milling machine first of all to drill two small holes in the top of the slide.
Finished with that task, he first screwed it into place with the baffles out, and then with the baffles in, congratulating himself for the tight fit of all the parts - before he realized that he hadn't cut a hole in the cover plate, which he had to do next, again with the milling machine.
One day I came across an engineer who had developed a milling machine that could be run by punch cards.
Now at the time, milling machine operators were among the best paid machinists in the world, and yet this damned machine was able to do as good a job as most of the Machinists ever could.
She smiled politely though not warmly, as she headed toward Warin and his milling machine.
She smiled politely though not warmly, as she headed toward Warm and his milling machine.
All joints were welded tight, and the container was stenciled in bold black letters: COMPUTERIZED MILLING MACHINE--FRAGILE!
A lathe and a milling machine were lined up against a third wall, along with smaller pieces of machinery.