Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In civil engineering:
- noun An excavation made along the side of a canal or railroad in order to obtain material to form an embankment.
- noun The formation of a road or canal along the side of a slope, where, the center of the work being nearly on the surface, the ground requires to be cut only on the upper side to form one half of the work, while the material thrown down forms the other half.
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Examples
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- Internal side-cutting tool (boring tool) or spiral-fluted counterbore (three-lipped twist drill) to produce the hole with machining allowance for reaming.
3. Preparation for reaming Detlev Krechlok 1990
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Figure 14 Cylindrical turning with the side-cutting tool
4. Main movements for cylindrical turning and facing Detlef Krechlok 1990
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When looking at the turning tool from the front, the position of the side-cutting edge tells us whether it is a right-hand or left-hand cutting tool.
2. Design and types of turning tools Detlef Krechlok 1990
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- The cutting process may be a combined operation (cylindrical turning and facing) using one cutting tool only (right-hand side-cutting tool) or an individual operation using the side-cutting tool or roughing tool.
5. Cylindrical turning and facing of simple cylindrical parts Detlef Krechlok 1990
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The turning tools primarily used are the side-cutting tool and roughing tool.
4. Main movements for cylindrical turning and facing Detlef Krechlok 1990
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Finishing is made, as a rule, with pointed side-cutting planer tools which according to the angle of inclination of the surfaces to be machined are ground on both sides.
4. Shaping of surfaces standing at an angle to each other and stepped surfaces Detlev Krechlok 1990
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It is to be ensured that the side-cutting edge is clear to work.
6. Centring with the turning tool Detlef Krechlok 1990
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The eyes of the Lieutenant had followed mine, and we exchanged a glance which expressed as plainly as words, that, unless the mountain-spur which projected into the bend of the river should prove sufficiently narrow to be tunnelled, or should fall off so as to admit of a side-cutting in the rock, our project might be regarded as at an end.
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Burgess appears to have shown some of the qualities of a good general; for he selected a spot where the only path wound along a steep side-cutting, less than six feet wide, with an unbroken forest on the upper, and a mass of tangled bush on the lower side.
Station Amusements 1871
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- internal side-cutting tool (boring tool) - internal roughing tool
2. Design and types of turning tools Detlef Krechlok 1990
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