shaper
IPA: ʃˈeɪpɝ
noun
- One who shapes.
- A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
- (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
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Examples of "shaper" in Sentences
- It need full Shaper for some reason.
- He was a facilitator, a shaper and a molder.
- It is a major shaper of world economic policy.
- A machine called the shaper follows this action.
- Iraq is still a shaper of polarity in the region.
- That may be negatively correlated with the shaper.
- And the case formula_11 is used in the pulse shaper.
- By contrast Blank seems a facilitator, a shaper, a molder.
- However, erosive forces are also powerful shapers of the mountains.
- At the beginning of the game, the player chooses a type of Shaper to be.