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Soft Limits
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Solid State Relay
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Solidworks
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R8 Collet Dimensions with Drawing
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SAE Carbon and Alloy Steel Grades
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Strain Hardening
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Switching Mode Power Supply
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Swiss Lathe
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Surface Speed
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STL File Format (*.stl)
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Stick-Slip
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Stepper Motor
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Step-Over
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Step and Direction
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STEP files
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Square Column Mill
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Spindle Speeder (Spindle Increaser)
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Spindle Sensor
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Spindle Override
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RS274D
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RS232 Serial Port or DB9
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Round Column Mill
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Roughing Cut
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Rockwell Hardness Scale
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R-Level
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Rigidity (Stiffness)
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Rigid Tapping
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Right Hand Rule
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Rhino 3D
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Retention Knob or Retention Stud
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Resonance
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Resolution
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Repeatability
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Relative Coordinates
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Regulated Power Supply
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Refractometer
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Recutting
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Rectifier
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Rapid Travel (Rapids)
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Ramping
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Rack and Pinion
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Quill
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Precipitation Hardening
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PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)
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Pulse Rate
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PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene)
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Proximity Switch
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Preload (Bearings and Leadscrews)
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Powered Drawbar
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Posting
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Positive Rake
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Pocket Milling
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Plunge
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Plasma Cutter or Plasma Table
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Pitch
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Pinch Turning
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PID (Proportional Integral Derivitive)
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Peripheral Milling
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Pendant
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Peck Drilling
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P-code
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Part Program
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Parametric Programming
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Oz/in (ounce inches)
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Origin
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Optical Isolator (aka Opto Isolator)
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Optional Stop
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Open Loop
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Open Collector
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Oldham Coupler
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NURB
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Normalizing
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NEMA
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Negative Rake
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Modal
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Motion Control
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Moglice
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ModIO
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Modes or Modal
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Mist Cooling
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Microswitch
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Microstepping
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MDI (Manual Data Input)
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M-Codes
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Manual Pulse Generator (MPG)
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Machine Zero
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Machine Coordinates
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Mach 3
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Lost Steps
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Lookahead
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Load Meters
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Live Tooling
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Linear Slide
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Linear Scale
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Linear Power Supply
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Linear Motion
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