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Gynaecology A person who performs illegal abortions
Molecular biology An enzyme that cuts double-stranded DNA in specific places
Psychiatry A person, more often female, who causes self injury in the form of razor cuts, slashes with hot knives, and other mentally cathartic acts; there are said to be up to 2 million cutters in the US, who may be recognised by cross-hatched scars in various place on their bodies, depression, distrust of others
Risks Scars, suicide, blood loss, infection—e.g., HIV—death
Surgery Slang for a surgeon

cutter

Self-mutilator Psychiatry A person, more often ♀, who causes self injury in the form of razor cuts, slashes with hot knives, and other mentally cathartic acts; there are said to be up to 2 million cutters in the US Clinical Cross-hatched scars, depression, distrust of others Risks Scars, suicide, blood loss, infection–eg, HIV, death. See Self mutilation.

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This can result in a poorly fitting sight even in a dovetail cut to "spec." You also need to measure your cutters for the same reasons, especially if you've reground them.

SPECS CAN LIE

Unlike other cutters that remove tube material and can leave particulates behind, the M-TPC planetary cutter actually splits the tubing apart cleanly through displacement, without the loss of any material.

Planetary cutter offers more precision for medical tubing

According to the results of statistic analyses and field surveys, the failure modes of PDC bit mainly involve the mechanical wear and fracture of cutters during normal drilling, accompanied with few occurrences of PCD stripping and cutter drop, wherein, the mechanical wear always occurs at the cutters on the top of crown, while fracture and stripping frequently occur in the cutters on the edge of crown [3].

Failure analysis and optimum structure design of PDC cutter

Different PDC bit cutter designs were studied to find out which design have the minimum wear rate.

EFFECT OF SIZE AND GEOMETRY OF POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND CUTTER (PCD) ON WEAR RATE IN MULTILAYER FORMATION

Early rifling cutter boxes were made of hardwood or brass.

The basics of cut rifling a rifle barrel: using modern machines and tools to create those important grooves

The Viper Series RockReamer improves penetration rates while extending cutter life.

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A precision flush cutter that reportedly removes parts from plastic sprues without damage, is comfortable to hold in any size hand, cuts fast, and has an internal return spring is available from Xuron Corp.

Xuron Corp

The tool set for the Forward Repair System (FRS), for example, has a bolt cutter with replaceable jaws.