'Milling machine' definitions:
Definition of 'milling machine'
From: WordNet
noun
Machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it [syn: miller, milling machine]
Definition of 'Milling machine'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]