Definition of Cutting angle

1. Noun. The angle between the face of a cutting tool and the surface of the work.

Generic synonyms: Angle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutting Angle

cuttages
cutted
cutter
cutter-offer
cuttermen
cutters
cutteth
cutthroat
cutthroats
cuttie
cuttier
cutties
cuttiest
cutting
cutting-edge
cutting angle (current term)
cutting bait
cutting board
cutting boards
cutting down
cutting edge
cutting forceps
cutting implement
cutting in
cutting it
cutting needle
cutting off
cutting off one's nose to spite one's face
cutting one's losses
cutting out

Literary usage of Cutting angle

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

1. Text-book of Advanced Machine Work: Prepared for Students in Technical by Robert Henry Smith (1919)
"Rake, clearance, and cutting angle defined. — Rake is applied to angle of upper surface ... The angle included between these surfaces is the cutting angle, ..."

2. A Manual of Machinery and Millwork by William John Macquorn Rankine (1893)
"In paring tools the cutting angle is always acute, as in fig. ... In scraping tools, the cutting angle may be acute, right, or obtuse; in fig. ..."

3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1886)
"The angle included between the faces of time wedge, will be called time cutting angle, and that between time surface being cut and time adjacent face of ..."

4. Text-book of Mechanical Engineering by Wilfrid James Lineham (1902)
"Thus, in the planing tool, A has been termed the cutting angle, while in the lathe tool c has been so called. Manifestly the first is the more reliable ..."

5. Profit Making in Shop and Factory Management by Charles Underwood Carpenter (1908)
"The dynamometer tests by Dr. Nicholson demonstrated the fact that a tool with lip angle of 54 degrees (cutting angle 60 degrees, clearance 6 degrees) would ..."

6. Mechanical Engineering and Machine Shop Practice by Stanley Holmes Moore (1908)
"A cutting angle of 80° is that indicated as being best for shop use, and the cutting stress for this angle is about 75 tons per square inch. Note. ..."

7. Text-book of Mechanical Engineering by Wilfrid James Lineham (1909)
"Thus, in the planing tool, A has been termed the cutting angle, while in the lathe tool c has been so called. Manifestly the first is the more reliable ..."

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