milling machine

English

some typical milling machines of the CNC type

a typical milling machine of a non-CNC type

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭlʹĭng-mə-shēn'

Noun

milling machine (plural milling machines)

2. (machining, manufacturing, idiomatic) 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.

   Synonyms: mill (often used, when the context makes the sense clear), miller (dated)

   Hypernyms: machine tool < machine

   Coordinate terms: machining center; horizontal machining center; vertical machining center (as CNC milling machines are often called); for more, see machine tool § Hyponyms (types of machine tool)

   The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.

   • 2009, Bo Zhao, Xipeng Xu, Advances in grinding and abrasive technology XV:

     In equal machining of cylindrical cam's groove, roughcast of cylindrical cam is clamped in revolving spindle of NC milling machine.

Related terms

• milling cutter

Translations

machine

• Catalan: fresadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銑床 / 铣床 (zh) (xǐchuáng or xiǎnchuáng)

• Czech: frézka (cs) f
• Finnish: jyrsin (fi)
• French: fraiseuse (fr) f
• German: Fräse f, Fräsmaschine (de) f
• Hebrew: כַּרְסֹמֶת (he) f (karsomet)
• Hungarian: marógép (hu)
• Italian: fresalesatrice f
• Polish: frezarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fresadora f
• Romanian: freză (ro) f, frezor (ro) n, mașină de frezat (ro) f
• Russian: фрезмаши́на f (frezmašína), фре́зерный стано́к (ru) m (frézernyj stanók)
• Serbo-Croatian: glodalica (sh)
• Spanish: fresadora (es) f