collet

American  

[kol-it] / ˈkɒl ɪt /

noun

• collets
  plural

1. a collar or enclosing band.

2. the enclosing rim within which a jewel is set.

3. 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.

4. Horology. the tiny collar that supports the inner terminal of a hairspring.

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verb (used with object)

colleted, colleting

1. to set (a gem or other stone) in a collet.

collet British  

/ ˈkɒlɪt /

noun

1. (in a jewellery setting) a band or coronet-shaped claw that holds an individual stone

2. 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

3. horology a small collar that supports the inner end of the hairspring

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verb

1. (tr) jewellery to mount in a collet

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• collets
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of collet

1520–30; < French, equivalent to col neck (< Latin collum ) + -et -et

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

collet collets colleting

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

When the spring develops to the right from collet as shown in Fig.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein

The old "table diamonds," once so highly prized, may be described as having the table and collet greatly enlarged at the expense of the beasil and pavilion.

From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Mrs Goddard Orpen

Letting out the spring can be accomplished by unpinning and repinning the spring at collet with less of the coil entered in the pinhole.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein

It will be noted that these two forms blend into the true spiral form of the spring at about one-eighth of the coil distant from the collet.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein

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

I counted about a hundred and eight pale rubies in collets about this throne, the least whereof weighed a hundred carats.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

To this may be added an endless variety of small bench tools, micrometers, protractors, arbors, collets, box tools and scrapers.

From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe

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 Joshua Rose

The broken lines illustrate a condition after colleting and before truing.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein

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