milling machine
noun
: a machine tool on which work usually of metal secured to a carriage is shaped by rotating milling cutters
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With the help of 3D scanners and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) milling machines, artists like Barry X Ball, Frank Benson, and Tavares Strachan are rebooting classical statuary while speaking to the transmuted sense of self that prevails in the age of the avatar.
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Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Early in the morning, corps members used a construction vehicle to grab one of the dozens of logs from under the shade structure and drop it onto the giant orange wood milling machine.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
The county’s complaint alleges Defense Distributed is trying to make an end run around the Legislature’s intent to bar the sale of the milling machines — which cut metal into shapes — in California.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
Advertisement Computer numerical control, or CNC, milling machines — which usually cost a few thousand dollars — are devices that guide drills to produce intricate and precise mechanical parts from slabs of metal.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
There are drill presses, milling machines and big butcher block tables.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
Deere is integrating autonomy into earthmovers, road milling machines, cotton pickers, tractors, and more.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Humongous dump trucks carry the ore to milling machines that crush and grind the ore into sandlike granules.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
The machines available in the space include a laser engraver/cutter, embroidery machine, 3D printer, CNC machine (desktop milling machine for rapid prototyping, large format printer/ vinyl cutter, sublimation printer, heat press, Cricut, sewing machine and 3D scanner.
—cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
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Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Early in the morning, corps members used a construction vehicle to grab one of the dozens of logs from under the shade structure and drop it onto the giant orange wood milling machine.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
The county’s complaint alleges Defense Distributed is trying to make an end run around the Legislature’s intent to bar the sale of the milling machines — which cut metal into shapes — in California.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
Advertisement Computer numerical control, or CNC, milling machines — which usually cost a few thousand dollars — are devices that guide drills to produce intricate and precise mechanical parts from slabs of metal.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
There are drill presses, milling machines and big butcher block tables.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
Deere is integrating autonomy into earthmovers, road milling machines, cotton pickers, tractors, and more.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Humongous dump trucks carry the ore to milling machines that crush and grind the ore into sandlike granules.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
The machines available in the space include a laser engraver/cutter, embroidery machine, 3D printer, CNC machine (desktop milling machine for rapid prototyping, large format printer/ vinyl cutter, sublimation printer, heat press, Cricut, sewing machine and 3D scanner.
—cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
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“Milling machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milling%20machine. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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