collet
Americannoun
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a collar or enclosing band.
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the enclosing rim within which a jewel is set.
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a slotted cylindrical clamp inserted tightly into the tapered interior of a sleeve or chuck on a lathe to hold a cylindrical piece of work.
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Horology. the tiny collar that supports the inner terminal of a hairspring.
verb (used with object)
noun
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(in a jewellery setting) a band or coronet-shaped claw that holds an individual stone
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mechanical engineering an externally tapered sleeve made in two or more segments and used to grip a shaft passed through its centre when the sleeve is compressed by being inserted in a tapered hole
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horology a small collar that supports the inner end of the hairspring
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of collet
1520–30; < French, equivalent to col neck (< Latin collum ) + -et -et
Example Sentences
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He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet with a hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he’d cut to length with a hacksaw.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
The location of the heavy point, however, may be shifted by changing the point of attachment at collet as described in No. 33, this Chapter.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.
This will cause the pinning point at collet to be shifted from "A" to "B" and bring it that much nearer to the horizontal line "C."
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.
The outer case and the face of the instrument are removed, but the hand is attached by its collet to the arbour.
From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry
The cylinder also carries a collet adapted for recessed plates so as to receive square or hexagon nuts of different sizes for tapping purposes, the taps being held in the rotating chuck.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
I have these weird lumps — flanges, or collets — behind my ears.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2017
To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He set jewels, and adorned them with marvellous collets and with little figures so well wrought, and at times so bizarre and fantastic that it is not possible to imagine anything finer or better.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Vasari, Giorgio
In this, as in other similar stocks, several collets with dies of various pitches and diameters of thread, fit to one stock.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The shanks of the collets are secured in the cylindrical head by means of either a bolt and key or by a set-screw.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The broken lines illustrate a condition after colleting and before truing.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.
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