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
If the pinning point was changed to the intersection of the collet and vertical line as shown in "I" Fig.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.
Animals grow proportionally in all directions, while plants grow upwards and downwards from a collet only.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
It consists of four chasers or toothed cutting tools, inserted in radial recesses or slots in an iron disc or collet encircled by an iron ring.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The inner black line shows the most practical form for use in instances where there is unusual space between the collet and the inner coil.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.
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 Swinburne, T. R.
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
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 Zerbe, James Slough
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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