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Also known as grinding (abrasive cutting)

abrasive machining process that uses a grinding wheel as a cutting tool

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machining
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Grinding and lapping
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Category:Grinding and lapping
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Encyclopedic overview

A man grinding metal using an angle grinder, causing a lot of sparks. Note of the lack of protective goggles. Grinding is a type of abrasive machining process which uses a grinding wheel as cutting tool.

A wide variety of machines are used for grinding, best classified as portable or stationary:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “grinding” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.