turning center
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
- machining center (in the broader sense of that term)
Coordinate terms[edit]
- machining center (in the narrower sense of that term)
- lathe
- screw machine
- Swiss-turn