machine screw

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   a screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole; slotted head can be driven by a screwdriver

   Broaderscrew

Questions about machine screw

What does machine screw mean?

machine screw means "a screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole; slotted head can be driven by a screwdriver".

Is machine screw a common word?

machine screw 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.