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Welcome to the encyclopedia and knowledge resource center for additive manufacturing (AM).

All the background information, definitions of terms, government regulations, standards, important events and news under one roof.

The aim is to simplify and organize the subject and provide comprehensive, useful, accurate and up-to-date knowledge and information for specialists from various industries who are involved with or becoming involved with additive technologies.

Complete dictionary of AM/3D Printing terms

We found that the different interpretations of terms by experts coming into additive manufacturing from different industries caused confusion.
Learning a new industry without a fully comprehensive dictionary is a major roadblock to production.

Therefore, we felt it was extremely important to create a dictionary of terms used in additive manufacturing.

Our experience has shown the high efficiency of using this dictionary to help specialists new to additive manufacturing understand and become familiar with the subject.

The AM Dictionary will remain the most up-to-date and complete universal reference on additive manufacturing through the constant addition of new terms as they evolve.

Find out more on the 3D Encyclopedia website.