machine shop

Noun

Meaning

workshop where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

foundry mill industry branch firm factory shop cooperative warehouse forge motor pool amusement arcade gasoline station manufacturing plant body shop
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Antonyms

home natural unemployment

Hypernyms

shop workshop

Examples

Before long, to meet the demands of an increasingly steam-powered navy, coaling facilities were built, and in 1862 a 'steam factory' housing metalworkers, a machine shop and smelting works, was established. Source: Internet

BURNETT: Bob Stewart’s welding and machine shop has lost half its business amid the paralysis in the oil patch. Source: Internet

As a thought experiment he proposed developing a set of one-quarter-scale manipulator hands slaved to the operator's hands to build one-quarter scale machine tools analogous to those found in any machine shop. Source: Internet

Eventually an elderly German woman came forward with Me 163 instruments that her late husband had collected after the war, and the engine was reproduced by a machine shop owned by Me 163 enthusiast Reinhold Opitz. Source: Internet

Ford went to work designing an inexpensive automobile, and the duo leased a factory and contracted with a machine shop owned by John and Horace E. Dodge to supply over $160,000 in parts. Source: Internet

In a machine shop full of powerful electric motors, the numerical control programs need to survive the magnetic fields generated by those motors. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

machine room machine science machine screw machine shops machine shorthand machine stitch