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collet
[ kol-it ]
noun
- a collar or enclosing band.
- the enclosing rim within which a jewel is set.
- 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.
- Horology. the tiny collar that supports the inner terminal of a hairspring.
verb (used with object)
colleted, colleting.
- to set (a gem or other stone) in a collet.
collet
/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
- (in a jewellery setting) a band or coronet-shaped claw that holds an individual stone
- 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
- horology a small collar that supports the inner end of the hairspring
verb
- tr jewellery to mount in a collet
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of collet1
C16: from Old French: a little collar, from col neckband, neck, from Latin collum neck
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From the plastic collet of the needle came a bloody froth.
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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.
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I have these weird lumps — flanges, or collets — behind my ears.
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Musk tweeted that the lockout collet on one of the rocket’s four legs didn’t latch, causing it to tip over after landing.
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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.
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