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TBM

TBM is the initialism of tunnel boring machine.

Meaning of tunnel boring machine

Noun

tunnel boring machine (plural tunnel boring machines)

  1. A large machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section.
    • Near-synonym: tunneler
    Synonyms:
    TBM, tunneler

Synonyms of TBM

Forms of TBM

pluralTBMs

Questions about TBM

What is TBM the initialism of?
TBM is the initialism of tunnel boring machine.

Words near TBM in the dictionary

  1. tbl
  2. tbl.
  3. tbls.
  4. tblspn
  5. tblspns
  6. TBM
  7. TBMs
  8. TBN
  9. Tbn.
  10. TBNs
  11. TBOI

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TBM (page history and authors); tunnel boring machine (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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