See also: Milling

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milling (countable and uncountable, plural millings)

  1. Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
    Hypernym: processing
    1. Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
    2. Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
    3. (machining) A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
      Hypernym: machining
      Coordinate terms: grinding, drilling, turning, boring, broaching, shaping, planing
  2. The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
    1. The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
  3. A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.

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milling

  1. present participle and gerund of mill

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