IndustrialDictionary

Manufacturing

511 entries in this trade.

candroy

nounManufacturingregional, obsolete

A machine for spreading or winding out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

carmagnole

nounManufacturing

A short jacket, fashionable during the French Revolution, with short skirts, a broad collar and lapels, and several rows of buttons.

check

nounManufacturing

A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.

chiné

adjectiveManufacturing

Mottled in appearance, from the warp being dyed in different colours, or from threads of different colours twisted together.

clamshell

verbManufacturing

To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.

cleantech

nounManufacturing

Technologies that support increased productivity or profitability while also reducing resource consumption or pollution.

clickability

nounManufacturing

The ability of a foam to retain its original shape after cutting, without deformation or burrs

CNC

nounManufacturing

Initialism of computer numerical control or computerized numerical control.

cobble

nounManufacturing

A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling.

concave

nounManufacturing

An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.

conservative

adjectiveManufacturing

Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.

corebox

nounManufacturing

A box in which the core (usually made of sand) for producing the hollow part of a casting, is made.

cosmetic second

nounManufacturing

An item produced by a manufacturer and sold wholesale that has a minor blemish and therefore is offered at a lower price.

couch

nounManufacturing

A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

coupon

nounManufacturing

A small sample of a bulk material, prepared so that test failure will be representative.

CQV

nounManufacturing

Initialism of commissioning, qualification, and validation

cram

nounManufacturing

A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

crochet

nounManufacturing

A form of needlework that is made by looping thread with a hooked needle.

cross-spall

nounManufacturing

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.

crossband

adjectiveManufacturing

Left-handed or "S shaped", with individual fibers oriented down and to the right when the thread, yarn, or rope is vertical.

curtain

nounManufacturing

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

darn

verbManufacturing

To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.

decrease

nounManufacturing

A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).

demand-driven

adjectiveManufacturing

Referring to a manufacturer tailoring one's production according to actual orders and changing customer demand rather than forecasting sales.

devil seam

nounManufacturing

A particularly difficult seam to caulk on a ship's hull, specifically the curved seam where the deck planking meets the side of the ship, near the scupper gutters.

digital twin

nounManufacturing

A digital model of an intended or existing real-world physical product, system, or process (a physical twin); it serves as the effectively indistinguishable digital counterpart of it for practical purposes, such as simulation, computer-aided manufacturing, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.