planetary mill
Metallurgy
noun
A heavy rolling mill for flattening metal in a single pass, the hot slab being forced between two large rolls each of which has a number of smaller work rolls around its circumference, the former being rotated in the direction of feed so that the latter rotate against the strip.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Engineer.
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