back-spotface

verb

To spotface from the backside of a workpiece by using a tool that passes through a through hole, deploys a cutting edge (or receives it by manual insertion from an operator), spotfaces the far side, retracts the cutting edge (or has it removed), and then retreats back through the hole (toward the tool's origin).

“There's no second operation on these parts. The backside features are all back-counterbores and back-spotfaces.”

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Meanings

verbback-spotface (third-person singular simple present back-spotfaces, present participle back-spotfacing, simple past and past participle back-spotfaced)

present singular third person back-spotfaces · participle present back-spotfacing · participle past back-spotfaced · past back-spotfaced

  1. engineeringTo spotface from the backside of a workpiece by using a tool that passes through a through hole, deploys a cutting edge (or receives it by manual insertion from an operator), spotfaces the far side, retracts the cutting edge (or has it removed), and then retreats back through the hole (toward the tool's origin).

    We won't need any second operation on these parts. We're going to back-counterbore and back-spotface all of these features on the backside.

nounback-spotface (plural back-spotfaces)

plural back-spotfaces

  1. A spotface that is so made.

    There's no second operation on these parts. The backside features are all back-counterbores and back-spotfaces.

Origin

From back- + spotface.

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back-spotface. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/back-spotface

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“back-spotface.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/back-spotface. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “back-spotface,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/back-spotface.

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