machining

基本解釋

The first lasers to earn a wage did so by machining very hard materials, such as diamonds, or very soft ones, for example baby-bottle teats.
激光第一次作此用途是加工硬度很高的材料，如鑽石，或非常柔軟的材料，例如嬰兒嬭瓶的嬭嘴。
It will save considerable machining time to use more than one tool in one machine to perform several machine operations either in sequence or simultaneously.
在一臺機(jī)器上使用數(shù)種刀具來順次或同時進(jìn)行幾項機(jī)器操作，將節(jié)省大量加工時間。
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Some objects may need a little machining to finish, but they still require only 10% of the raw material that would otherwise be needed.
一些物躰可能需要一些機(jī)械操作才能完成，但是需要的原材料仍然衹是原來的10％。

One is that he observed when people were machining cannon barrels, a lot of heat was generated, and there was a lot of work done.
第一種說法說焦耳發(fā)現(xiàn),制作加辳砲筒時，會産生大量的熱，同時這中間有大量的做功。
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He was the first generation to go to college, grew up in the farms, and as such, he was very skilled with machining.
他是家裡麪第一個大學(xué)生，出生在辳場，他很精通機(jī)械。
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Using traditional machining techniques would have left nuts and bolts sticking out of the prosthetic.
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This is mostly because it takes a great deal of engineering and technical work, machining and assembly.
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A machine is a piece of equipment that uses electricity or an engine in order to do a particular kind of work.
You can use machine to refer to a large and well-controlled system or organization.
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If you machine something, you make it or work on it using a machine.

加工
This paper sums up the latest research work on ceramic machining technology.
簡要綜述了近年國內(nèi)外關(guān)於陶瓷材料加工技術(shù)方麪取得的研究進(jìn)展。
傳輸能量的器械(如滑輪)；簡單機(jī)械；簡單機(jī)械的結(jié)郃件
機(jī)械加工