cutting angle

1. 1.

   the angle between the face of a cutting tool and the surface of the work

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Questions about cutting angle

What does cutting angle mean?

cutting angle means "the angle between the face of a cutting tool and the surface of the work".

Is cutting angle a common word?

cutting angle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.