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The term engineering is sometimes more loosely defined, especially in Great Britain, as the manufacture or assembly of engines, machine tools, and machine parts.—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 The Connecticut River Valley then became a node of machine tool manufacturing.—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026 Excluding those categories, engines, communications equipment, machine tools and a variety of metals, increased.—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026 In Southeast Asia, that trade was buoyed by leaps in the export of machine tools, automobile parts and computer components.—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for machine tool