machining center
- noun
- /məˈʃinɪŋ ˈsɛntər/
- Specialized
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centro de mecanizado
- STEP-NC defines a data input standard for machining centers.
- vertical machining center
Examples
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The proLIGHT 1000 and 2000 machining centers with automatic tool changers allow engineers to produce prototypes and rapidly test form, fit, and function of new part designs.
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The WisMatic R665 horizontal machining center, designed to increase productivity between 15 percent and 45 percent over current production methods on existing machining centers, features a Bosch OSA Type 3 CNC control system.
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A forest of tools on a machining center sits ready for work.
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The data carrier follows the tool setup out to the machining center.
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The system can be retrofitted for vertical machining centers with or without existing coolant-through-spindle systems.
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This Teledyne machining center features a work area that measures 20 feet horizontally and 12 feet vertically.
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Once the tool and adapter are parked in a pocket on the machining center, the part program can call up the specifics of that particular tool setup.
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A direct, reversible link between a machining center and a CAD system ought to attract the interest of auto and aerospace design studios where designs can change several times a day as they are machined.
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Although measuring a part when it's clamped into a machining center uses up metal-cutting time, doing so can actually save minutes upstream and downstream of the machining cycle, Rogers said.
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The machining center automatically switches tools to perform different cutting operations with precision.
Synonyms
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3.9
A powered machine that cuts and shapes metal or other materials
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A tool with a spinning cutter that cuts and shapes metal and other hard materials
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'center' denotes a place or facility and 'machining' denotes making parts with machines, so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a place (or machine/facility) where machining is done. The detailed technical features in the definition are specialist elaborations but do not obscure the core, cross-linguistically common 'X center' = place for X structure.
Etymology
Machining center comes from the parts machining, meaning making or shaping parts with a machine, and center, meaning the main place for an activity. Think of one large computer-controlled machine that has its own tool storage and can change tools by itself, like a small workshop in one unit, so the term means 'a machine that does many accurate jobs making and shaping metal'.