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Definitions: MACHINING |
MACHININGAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Machine |
Date "MACHINING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | Direct method of cutting out the mould cavity from a solid block of metal using normal cutting and machine tools and techniques. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are also individuals who start building up a home workshop with the idea of eventually building some project, such as maybe a miniature steam locomotive, but get sidetracked into building the machine tools themselves and their accessories. The home machine shop thus may end up being an end in itself. This is potentially a perfectly satisfying hobby in itself. There are in fact at least two magazines that cater to this side of the hobby, "Home Shop Machinist" in the USA and "Model Engineers Workshop" in the United Kingdom.
Typical machines for the hobby machinist.
The basic machine is the lathe. You would hardly have any street cred as a hobby machinist if you did not have some sort of lathe. A lathe is a machine tool that generates circular sections by rotating the job around an axis and cutting it with a tool. The job may be supported between a pair of hardened points called centres, or it may be bolted to a faceplate or held in a chuck. A chuck has movable jaws that can grip the job. For a metal lathe, the tool is supported on a saddle and cross slide that permits it to be moved along and across the axis of the machine. The movements are normally calibrated so that precise cuts can be made. An additional slide called a topslide is often present, and this can be angled to permit cutting short tapers. A Screwcutting Lathe has provision for gearing the feed along the axis to the drive rotating the job. Suitable choice of ratios permits screw threads to be cut and also allows for an automatic fine feed. This allows the operator to stand and watch. With ingenuity, a lathe can perform most of the other machining tasks mentioned below, although the size of work may be limited compared to special machines. It follows that a lathe should be the first machine tool acquired and it should be as big as you can manage.
Drill press. This machine is used for drilling holes. Most hobby machinists would have either a bench mounted or floor standing power drill press. Drill bits are held in a chuck, or sometimes in a tapered hole, and are rotated at a suitable speed by an electric motor. A hand lever permits feeding the drill into the job. Clamping the job to the table or using a vice is a really good idea, especially if you like being attached to your fingers.
Milling machines.
There are two main types of mill. The vertical mill is like the drill press, but with an X-Y table that permits moving the job. End mills and slot drills (Cutters that look a little like a drill bit.) can cut slots and pockets, while other specialised cutters can cut dovetails and t-slots. Large face mills can cut flat surfaces. A combination machine called a mill-drill is quite popular with amateurs as it takes the place of the drill press and a vertical mill.
A horizontal mill has the same sort of X-Y table, but the cutters go on a horizontal arbor across the table. Cutters for this have a cross section like a circular saw but are generally wider and smaller in diameter. A number may be ganged together on the arbor to face a flat surface. Special cutters can also cut grooves or indeed any section desired, but tend to be expensive.
Shapers.
These are an older style of machine that is no longer favoured in profesional machine shops but is popular with some amateurs because the tooling for them is very cheap. The job mounts on a box shaped table in front of the machine. The height of the table can be adjusted to suit the job, and the table can traverse sideways, usually controlled by an automatic feed. A ram slides back and forth above the job, and a tool on the end of the ram cuts a flat surface on the top of the job. A small slide permits feeding the tool downwards to put on a cut. Most common use is machining flat surfaces but with ingenuity and some acccessories a wide range of work can be done.
Accessories for mills and shapers.
Desirable accesories include the following:
Vices to hold the work on the table. These are a precision vice with flat jaws to hold the job without marking it. They are much lower in profile than bench vices used for hand work.
Dividing head. These are used for machining features that repeat around a circular job repeatedly such as gear teeth or flats. The better ones are based on a worm gear and permit a very wide range of divisions to be performed.
Rotary table. A form of dividing head that has a vertical axis. Very useful on Vertical mills for setting out holes around acircle or machining partly circular shapes.
Power saws.
These include power hacksaws and bandsaws, with blades suitable for cutting metal. Very useful for cutting pieces from bar stock ready for machining or welding
Welding equipment.
Amateurs may possess a variety of welding, brazing, and soldering equipment. This includes:
Electric arc welding, which is useful for welding up structural steel elements.
Oxy acetylene welding equipment. this can perform structural welding on smalle items, but is more expensive than arc welding. On the plus side, it can also be used for cutting steel, brazing and silver soldering, and hardening high carbon steel parts.
Propane/butane torches. These cannot perform welding, but are useful for braxing, silver soldering, and hardening items.
Contributed by John Olsen
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Machining."
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Business | Both the high hardness and high lubricity coating technologies are enablers for the transition to dry machining. (references) | |
The industry is able to draw on mechanical skills that have been developed over 20 years in precision machining and metal fabrication. (references) | ||
It offers comprehensive training courses, which gives participants the basic knowledge and practical skills for programming and machining on CNC lathes and machining centers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hungary | Use of agents is the most widespread in the more capital- and technical expertise-intensive machining, tooling and heavy industrial sectors, where skilled older engineers with a good understanding of the local market are usually readily available to represent U.S. exporters. (references) |
Brazil | Machining centers; Parts and accessories for laser cutting machines, machining centers, lathes, drilling machines, etc; Parts and accessories for forging machines, metal rolling machines, presses and metal extruders; CNC lathes; Laser cutting machines; CNC EDM machines; Machines for working metal wires; CNC punching machines; machines for metal sheet rolling and folding; CNC metal stamping machines; CNC grinding machines; CNC gear cutting machine tools, etc. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MACHINING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 42.42% of the time. "MACHINING" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 42.42% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 30.3% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.18% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MACHINING": chipless machining ♦ electrical discharge machining ♦ elektrochemical machining. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "MACHINING": wood-machining. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
machining | 411 |
cnc machining | 410 |
precision machining | 252 |
part machining | 202 |
photo chemical machining | 77 |
plastic machining | 64 |
contract machining | 58 |
machining center | 53 |
high speed machining | 43 |
electrical discharge machining | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MACHINING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "机器制 (Machined). (various references) | |
Danish | maskinbehandeling (machine finishing), trykning (impression, print, printing, pulling, working off), spaantagende bearbejdning, bearbejdning (collation, conversion, processing, tooling, working with cutting tools). (various references) | |
Dutch | machinale bewerking (machine finishing), verspanend bewerken (tooling, working with cutting tools), drukken (oppress, oven pushing, press, print, printing, pulling, push, pushing, squeeze, to discharge, working off), afspanen (skimming). (various references) | |
Finnish | koneistus. (various references) | |
French | usinage (machine finishing). (various references) | |
German | zerspanen (chipping), bearbeitend. (various references) | |
Greek | κατεργασία κοπής (tooling, working with cutting tools), κατεργασία σε εργαλειομηχανή (tooling, working with cutting tools), βιομηχανική κατεργασία (machine finishing), μηχανουργική κατεργασία με αφαίρεση υλικού, εκτύπωση (impression, press-work, printing, printout, pulling, working off), τύπωμα (impression, press-work, printing, pulling, working off), τράβηγμα (attenuating, attenuation, drafting, draught, draw, drawing, drawing qualities, forming, haul, printing, pull, pulling, setting, traction, tug, twitch, withdrawal, withdrawament, working off, yank). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megmunkálás (elaboration, fashioning, finishing, finishing off, forming, get-up, moulding, refining, roughing, second working, shaping, surface-planning, turning). (various references) | |
Italian | tiratura (attenuating, attenuation, drawing, edition, impression, printing, pulling, run, working off), lavorazione meccanica (machine finishing), lavorazione di macchina, lavorazione a macchina, lavorazione (appointment, conversion, mailorder, manufacture, order, processing, tooling, working, working with cutting tools), eliminare mediante lavorazione all'utensile. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 切削 (a cut, cutting). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せっさく (a cut, cutting, humble reference to one's own work, poor policy or plan, poor work). (various references) | |
Korean | 기계로 가공. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achiningmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mecanização por ferramenta, maquinagem (machine, machine finishing, work on a machine tool), usinagem (tooling, working with cutting tools), trabalho mecânico (machine finishing), trabalho (ado, craftsmanship, effort, employment, fabricate, function, hard up, job, job-, labor, labour, machine finishing, mark, needs, operation, pain, painstaking, process, processing, service, space, task, tool, work, working, workmanship, works), tiragem (circulation, clearing, dispensing, draw, draw by lot, drawing, drawing by lot, drawing qualities, edition 2. edition, editor, impression, issues 3. size of edition, l. run, press run, printing, pulling, run, working off). (various references) | |
Russian | обрабатывать обработка станочный. (various references) | |
Spanish | mecanizado con herramienta, mecanizado (machine finishing, tooling, working with cutting tools), mecanización (mechanization, tooling, working with cutting tools), maquinando (machinating), tirada (circulation, draw, edition 2. edition, gunshot, heave, impression, issue, issues 3. size of edition, l. run, load, output, press run, print, printing, pull, pulling, run, throw, toss, working off), obraje (tooling, working with cutting tools), fabricación (fabrication, farad, making, manifacture, manufactory, manufacture, manufacturing, production, tooling, working with cutting tools). (various references) | |
Swedish | spånskärande bearbetning (cutting, shaping by cutting, working by cutting), spånavskiljande bearbetning. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"MACHINING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Machain, Machinian, Macibini, Marchionni, Mcwhinnie, Mochnant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MACHINING" (pronounced mishē"ning) |
| 4 | -ē" n i ng | careening, cleaning, convening, demeaning, greening, intervening, leaning, meaning, preening, screening, weaning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-m-n-n" | |
-1 letter: chaining. | |
-2 letters: chiming, chining, inching, miching, mincing, niching. | |
-3 letters: aching, aiming, aminic, caning, macing, mining, naming, niacin. | |
-4 letters: acing, acini, amici, amnic, animi, chain, chang, china, gamic, gamin, icing, magic, manic. | |
-5 letters: agin, amin, cain, cham, chia, chin, gain, hang, inch, inia, mach, magi, main, mica, mina, mini, nigh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-m-n-n" | |
+2 letters: chairmaning, championing, machinating, mechanizing. | |
+3 letters: chairmanning. | |
+4 letters: merchandising, merchandizing, mischanneling. | |
+5 letters: merchandisings, merchandizings, mischannelling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 43 48 49 4E 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.-. .... .. -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A C H I N I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473537424348434841 |
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