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Machine tool   /məʃˈin tul/   Listen
Machine tool

noun
1.
A powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials.





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"Machine tool" Quotes from Famous Books



... these early New England gunshops, was born the American system of interchangeable manufacture. Its growth depended upon the machine tool, that is, the machine for making machines. Machine tools, of course, did not originate in America. English mechanics were making machines for cutting metal at least a generation before Whitney. One of the earliest ...
— The Age of Invention - A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, Book, 37 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Holland Thompson


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