Numerical Control - (NC)
- Method of using digitally encoded information to sequence the operations of a machine.
Can be provided by a computer or other means such as cards.
- Digital codes, punched into cards, were used by Joseph Jacquard
in 1801 A.D. for controlling looms to weave elaborate designs and by Herman Holerith
in 1890 A.D. for tallying the census.
- See also computer numercally controlled.