Glossary
Tool Grinder Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential tool grinder terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key tool grinder vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in tool grinder training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Carbide
- Hard tool material.
- Diamond wheel
- Wheel for carbide.
- Edge prep
- Edge honing.
- First article
- First part checked before a run.
- Flute
- Chip channel.
- Helix angle
- Spiral angle.
- HSS
- High-speed steel.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation before servicing.
- Point angle
- Drill tip angle.
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment.
- Rake angle
- Cutting face angle.
- Relief angle
- Clearance behind the edge.
- Runout
- Wobble.
- Scrap
- Parts that fail inspection.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Tool Grinder practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Tool Grinder training.
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