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- 1. a fixed powered tool such as a lathe, for cutting or shaping metal, wood, or other material.
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Machine for shaping or machining metal, has means for constraining the workpiece and provides a guided tool movement
A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some sort of tool that does the cutting or shaping. All machine tools have some means of constraining the workpiece and provide a guided movement of the parts of the machine. Thus, the relative movement between th... Wikipedia