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machine-hours

machine-hours is the plural of machine-hour.

Meaning of machine-hour

Noun

machine-hour (plural machine-hours)

  1. The amount of work that can be done by one machine in one hour; a billable hour for one machine. (Said of, for example, a piece of heavy equipment or a machine tool.)
    • With the right carbide tooling and toolpath programming, you're not looking at too many machine-hours for a job like this. If you're going to putz around with cheaper tooling and guesstimated feedrates, then you'll pay for those in more machine-hours.

Questions about machine-hours

What is machine-hours the plural of?
Machine-hours is the plural of machine-hour.

Words near machine-hours in the dictionary

  1. machine-gunner
  2. machine-gunners
  3. machine-gunning
  4. machine-guns
  5. machine-hour
  6. machine-hours
  7. machine-made
  8. machine-paced
  9. machine-readable
  10. machine-translate
  11. machine-translated

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