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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Contractors use a milling machine to grind up the existing pavement surface.
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Baoshan Huang, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
San Diego County has gone after other industries in recent years, including opioid manufacturers and the maker of a milling machine the county argues can be used to make unregistered firearms known as ghost guns.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
That lawsuit had challenged the California law that bans the sale and marketing of computer numerical control, or CNC, milling machines that are primarily designed to manufacture firearms.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Baoshan Huang, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
San Diego County has gone after other industries in recent years, including opioid manufacturers and the maker of a milling machine the county argues can be used to make unregistered firearms known as ghost guns.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
That lawsuit had challenged the California law that bans the sale and marketing of computer numerical control, or CNC, milling machines that are primarily designed to manufacture firearms.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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“Milling machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milling%20machine. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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