machine tool
: a machine designed for shaping solid work
Recent Examples on the Web
//Dead trees were imported on trucks, ground smooth with machine tools to prevent children from getting splinters, individually numbered, and then lowered into the stream, creating artisanal eddies.
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Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, "The $68,000 Fish," 28 Oct. 2019
//The retail operation provides industrial customers direct access to purchase, rent and service tools like cylinders and jacks, pumps and bolting and machine tools.
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From News Reports, Houston Chronicle, "Drone maker plans office in Deer Park," 22 Oct. 2019
//Barnes builds filters for machine tools used to manufacture engines and transmissions.
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Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, "The GM strike is now affecting the automaker’s suppliers — and Illinois companies are increasingly feeling the pressure," 16 Oct. 2019
//Replacing buildings alone would cost $2.2 billion, but officials also must replace or repair specialized equipment, furniture, machine tools, telecommunication assets and other facilities, the document shows.
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Los Angeles Times, "Ridgecrest earthquakes caused up to $5 billion in damage to China Lake naval base," 14 Aug. 2019
//Japan on Friday expanded controls over exports to South Korea of items ranging from ball bearings to precision machine tools.
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New York Times, "As Japan and South Korea Feud Intensifies, U.S. Seems Unwilling, or Unable, to Help," 4 Aug. 2019
//High school students will learn to build a fully functional rocket launch controller using CNC machine tools, and launch a rocket to high altitude during the camp.
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Staff Report, chicagotribune.com, "Community news," 12 June 2019
//To make his lids, Mr. Fleming had to import special machine tools (previously used in making raspberry containers) from Canada.
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A.j. Jacobs, WSJ, "To Make a Cup of Coffee, It Takes More Than a Village," 8 Nov. 2018
//In April, the Trump administration proposed a 10 percent tariff on over $50 billion worth of imports from China, which included 1,300 product categories, such as medical equipment, televisions, machine tools, and dishwashers.
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Diana Budds, Curbed, "How Trump’s tariffs are affecting the furniture industry," 7 Aug. 2018
First Known Use of machine tool
1852, in the meaning defined above
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