collet
noun
a collar or enclosing band.
collets
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pluralof collet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Joshua Rose
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 Giorgio Vasari
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
