#mechanical process

• Crushing — The act of crushing, grinding, or fragmenting and its result; a physical or mechanical process of breaking solid bodies or raw materials into smaller fragments or powder.
• Flatten — To make flat, flatten, squeeze, or level a three-dimensional structure through external force or mechanical processing; as a reflexive verb, it represents the action of losing its natural relief, roundness, or curvature, becoming perfectly plane. In digital design and software, it refers to the process of merging multiple independent compositional layers into a single final two-dimensional image.
• Bristling — The act of bristling or becoming like a hedgehog and its result; a process through which the surface of a material, a fabric, or hair strands become rough, rigid, bristly, or raised upward, structurally recalling the appearance of hedgehog spines. In metallurgy or mechanics, the term can describe the formation of small asperities, burrs, or sharp irregularities on a part's surface due to faulty thermal or mechanical processing.
• Machined — Having undergone the process of machining or chipping; a solid material shaped, cut, or finished by the successive removal of thin layers in the form of chips. As a neuter noun, it indicates the technical operation itself performed on machine tools. It describes the structural state of a part whose final dimensions and geometric precisions were obtained via a cutting tool.
• Autotype — A photomechanical printing process used to reproduce continuous-tone images (photographs, paintings) by means of a screen (halftone screen) that breaks the image down into a dense layout of fine dots of varying sizes. The term also denotes the metallic printing plate (autotype) obtained through this method, historically used for illustration printing in books and newspapers.