Definition of Iron filing

1. Noun. A fragment of iron rubbed off by the use of a file.

Generic synonyms: Metal Filing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iron Filing

iron boot
iron cage
iron carbide
iron chelating agents
iron collar
iron compounds
iron curtain
iron curtains
iron deficiency
iron deficiency anaemia
iron deficiency anemia
iron dextrin
iron disulfide
iron eagle
iron excess
iron filing (current term)
iron filings
iron fist
iron fists
iron foundry
iron gray
iron haematoxylin
iron hand
iron heel
iron horse
iron horses
iron index
iron isotopes
iron lung

Literary usage of Iron filing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Machine Shop Practice: A Study of Conditions for Uses in Trade, Industrial by William J. Kaup (1911)
"CAST-iron filing Angle Plate. SC Bastard File. 1. Select proper file, 12" bastard; sight along edge and find the greatest convexity. ..."

2. Machine Shop Practice: A Study of Conditions for Uses in Trade, Industrial by William J. Kaup (1911)
"CAST-iron filing Angle Plate. SC Bastard File. 1. Select proper file, 12" bastard; sight along edge and find the greatest convexity. ..."

3. Electric Transmission of Energy and Its Transformation, Subdivision, and by Gisbert Kapp (1894)
"But if the needle is very short, say only the length of a particle of iron filing, this inequality between the attracting and repelling force will at a ..."

4. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The iron-filing pictures afford indications of the direction and magnitude of the ... There are in the iron-filing pictures what are virtually outgoing and ..."

5. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus by Paracelsus (1894)
"iron filing can also be reduced and transmuted as if into lead, ... Therefore proceed thus : Take some iron filing, and the same quantity of the best ..."

6. General Physics and Its Application to Industry and Everyday Life by Ervin Sidney Ferry (1921)
"An iron filing diagram of the magnetic field about two parallel conductors carrying equal currents in the same direction is given in Fig. 271. ..."

7. Machine Shop Practice: A Study of Conditions for Uses in Trade, Industrial by William J. Kaup (1911)
"CAST-iron filing Angle Plate. SC Bastard File. 1. Select proper file, 12" bastard; sight along edge and find the greatest convexity. ..."

8. Machine Shop Practice: A Study of Conditions for Uses in Trade, Industrial by William J. Kaup (1911)
"CAST-iron filing Angle Plate. SC Bastard File. 1. Select proper file, 12" bastard; sight along edge and find the greatest convexity. ..."

9. Electric Transmission of Energy and Its Transformation, Subdivision, and by Gisbert Kapp (1894)
"But if the needle is very short, say only the length of a particle of iron filing, this inequality between the attracting and repelling force will at a ..."

10. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The iron-filing pictures afford indications of the direction and magnitude of the ... There are in the iron-filing pictures what are virtually outgoing and ..."

11. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus by Paracelsus (1894)
"iron filing can also be reduced and transmuted as if into lead, ... Therefore proceed thus : Take some iron filing, and the same quantity of the best ..."

12. General Physics and Its Application to Industry and Everyday Life by Ervin Sidney Ferry (1921)
"An iron filing diagram of the magnetic field about two parallel conductors carrying equal currents in the same direction is given in Fig. 271. ..."

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