turning center

English

Noun

turning center (plural turning centers)

(manufacturing) Any of a class of machine tools with computerized control and actuation (usually and especially of the CNC type) whose primary action is turning and boring as opposed to milling: archetypally, a computerized lathe or screw machine (as opposed to a computerized milling machine).

Hypernyms

machining center (in the broader sense of that term)

Coordinate terms

machining center (in the narrower sense of that term)
- horizontal machining center (HMC)
- vertical machining center (VMC)
lathe
screw machine
Swiss-turn

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