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Definition of Machinable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machinable
Literary usage of Machinable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Engineering: A Handbook of Useful Information for Managers by William Miller Barr (1918)
"... prevents the use in such parts of steel of the highest strength attainable
because steel having that strength is not commercially machinable. ..."
2. Elasticity and Strength of Materials Used in Engineering Construction by Claude Allen Porter Turner (1922)
"The resulting metal remains machinable to almost the same extent as ordinary cast
iron but is much stronger as there is less graphite inter- ..."
3. Transactions by American Foundrymen's Society (1920)
"The reason a weld cannot be produced in malleable that is machinable except in
the very outer surface, is this : The extreme outer surface of the malleable ..."
4. Green Paper on the Development of the Single Marget for Postal Services (In by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"They are also streamed (if streams are applied) - for instance into letters and
printed papers, urgent and non-urgent; first and second class; machinable ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1789)
"... Dr. ЬЬ fetter to the machinable, Mr. hit hypothecs relit'cf to the origin of
European ..."
6. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"... and which will leave the steel in a machinable condition, treatment I. may be
modified at (c) as thus noted, and no further treatment will be required. ..."
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