milling meaning

• Noun: milling  miling
  1. Corrugated edge of a coin
  Verb: mill  mil
  1. Move about in a confused manner
     - mill about, mill around 
  2. Grind with a mill
     "mill grain" 
  3. Produce a ridge around the edge of
     "mill a coin" 
  4. Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

  Derived forms: millings

  Type of: bray [archaic], comminute, crunch, edge, grind, groove, mash, move, roll, roll out

  Encyclopedia: Mill Mill, Netherlands

  Milling

• 
  [Architecture]
  1.

  In stonework, the processing of quarry blocks, through sawing, planing, turning, and cutting techniques, to finished stone.

  2.

  In metalwork, the process of dressing a surface with various shapes of rotary cutters to produce a flat or grooved surface.

  3.

  See knurling.

• 
  [Mechanical engineering]
  "Mechanical treatment of materials to produce a powder, to change the size or shape of metal powder particles, or to coat one powder mixture with another."

• abreast milling:    [Mechanical engine ...
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Examples

1. sise panted, pushing against the milling crowd.
2. ball milling dye and organic liquid give highly satisfactory results.
3. when face milling is performed, the table can be moved longitudinally to feed the workpiece under or below the cutter.
4. in most knee-type milling machines, there are three possible table movements: longitudinal, crosswise, and vertical.
5. taps, reamers, drills, saws, milling cutters, burnishing tools, and so on, have all been successfully plated.