Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)

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Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)
A machine that excavates a circular tunnel by cutting and/or abrading the heading to full size in one operation. Also referred to as a mole. The term has so commonly been associated with rock tunnelling that when a TBM is used in earth it is often prefaced by qualifier "soft-ground".