turning center

English

Noun

turning center (plural turning centers)

1. (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

• machining center (in the broader sense of that term)

Coordinate terms

• machining center (in the narrower sense of that term)
  • horizontal machining center (HMC)
  • vertical machining center (VMC)
• lathe
• screw machine
• Swiss-turn