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3D printing

noun

Etymology

The narrower sense was the earliest sense, at a time when its referent was the only commercialized type (late 20th century). The broader sense has since eclipsed the narrower one.

Definitions

  1. The manufacture of three-dimensional solid objects from digital models.

  2. present participle and gerund of 3D print

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for 3D printing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA