milling machine

• enPR: mĭlʹĭng-mə-shēn'

milling machine (plural milling machines)

1. (mechanical engineering) A machine tool in which a rotating cutter is moved against the workpiece (or vice versa) in order to cut the latter to a desired shape.

• mill (often used, when the context makes the sense clear)
• miller (dated)

• machine tool

• machining center, horizontal machining center, vertical machining center (as CNC milling machines are often called)
• see machine tool § Hyponyms (types of machine tool)