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grinding wheel

grinding wheel noun: a wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations.

Noun

grinding wheel (plural grinding wheels)

  1. A wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Something that wears down or harms by attrition.
    • A competing branch argues, in turn, that crime policy—policing policy in particular—has become more punitive given the heightened power of penal bureaucrats together with the diminished influence of the persons and populations most often subject to the grinding wheels of penal administration.2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 800

grinding wheel meaning in Tamil

grinding wheel in Tamil

சாணைக்கல், சாணைக் சக்கரம், சாணைச் சக்கரம், அரைக்குஞ்சில்லு, சாணைச்சக்கரம்

Forms of grinding wheel

pluralgrinding wheels

Questions about grinding wheel

What does grinding wheel mean?
Grinding wheel means a wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations.
What is grinding wheel in Tamil?
Grinding wheel in Tamil is சாணைக்கல், சாணைக் சக்கரம், சாணைச் சக்கரம். See Grinding wheel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grinding wheel?
Grinding wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of grinding wheel?
The plural of grinding wheel is grinding wheels.

Words near grinding wheel in the dictionary

  1. grinding out
  2. grinding stone
  3. grinding stones
  4. grinding the corn
  5. grinding up
  6. grinding wheel
  7. grinding wheels
  8. grindingly
  9. grindings
  10. grindle
  11. grindle-stone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grinding wheel (page history and authors); grinding wheel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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