machine shop

noun

|Updated on: 13 Jul 2018

Definition of machine shop

: a workshop in which work is machined to size and assembled

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Recent Examples of machine shop from the Web

Xometry will also incorporate a MakeTime program that gives machine shops in its network access to special offers on cutting tools, software, computer equipment and manufacturing equipment financing programs.

— jennifer smith, WSJ, "Custom-Parts Marketplace Xometry Raises $25 Million in New Funding," 10 July 2018
In the machine shop inside, amid piles of aluminum shavings, a linebacker-sized, friendly engineer named Jeff Winkleman is walking me through the painstaking process of turning a gun into a collection of numbers.

— adam fisher, WIRED, "A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora’s Box for DIY Guns," 10 July 2018
Its heyday ended long ago — when the building housed a Navy machine shop during World War II.

— jon chesto, BostonGlobe.com, "Long-vacant waterfront building reopens as a construction company’s plumbing-HVAC center," 14 June 2018
His research ultimately homed in on Mrs. Fraley, who had worked in a Navy machine shop during World War II.

— margalit fox, New York Times, "Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96," 22 Jan. 2018
The couple, who own a machine shop in Phoenix that manufactures aerospace parts, have lived most of their married life in rural areas, with an assortment of animals.

— anne ryman, azcentral, "Granite Mountain Hotshots: An untold story from the day 19 firefighters died," 23 June 2018
In 2016, the company launched a robotics division, Arnold Automation, to sell robots that work in machine shops and factories taking on repetitive tasks such as putting products in boxes and sealing them.

— lorraine mirabella, baltimoresun.com, "Five Minutes with Mick Arnold of Arnold Packaging," 25 May 2018
James Allison’s small machine shop at Main and Twelfth streets in Speedway City, which was initially called the Allison Experimental Co., designed and manufactured parts for the Liberty V-12 engines.

— dawn mitchell, Indianapolis Star, "Indianapolis Motor Speedway and town were a crucial aviation hub during WWI," 18 May 2018
Bits and pieces of this future are taking shape throughout Southern California, from experimental rocket sites in the desert and precision machine shops in Los Angeles to satellites launched from the coast.

— geoff manaugh, The Atlantic, "Los Angeles, America’s Future Spaceport," 17 May 2018

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