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milling.

Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.

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noun/ˈmɪlɪŋ/

  1. Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill. Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.

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  2. Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill. Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).

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  3. Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill. A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.

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  4. The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.

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  5. The surface or other physical result produced by such a process. 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.

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  6. A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.

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verb/ˈmɪlɪŋ/

  1. present participle and gerund of mill

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