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Webster 1913 Edition
Collet
1.
A small collar or neckband.
Foxe.
2.
(Mech.)
A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor;
as, the
; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill. collet
on the balance arbor of a watch3.
(Jewelry)
(a)
The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
(b)
The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of
Brilliant
. How full the
collet
with his jewel is! Cowley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Collet
COLLET
, n.1.
Among jewelers, the horizontal face or plane at the bottom of brilliants; or the part of a ring in which the stone is set.2.
In glass-making, that part of glass vessels which sticks to the iron instrument used in taking the substance from the melting-pot.3.
Anciently, a band or collar.4.
A term used by turners.Definition 2024
Collet
Collet
See also: collet
French
Etymology
From a medieval diminutive of the given name Nicolas.
Proper noun
Collet
- A common patronymic surname.
collet
collet
See also: Collet
English
Noun
collet (plural collets)
- A band, flange, ferrule, or collar, designed to grip and hold a tool or a workpiece under proper control, and usually to release it under control thereafter; such a collet usually is made of a hard, springy material, especially a metal.
- That collet can handle up to 3/8-inch bits.
- In jewelry, the rim (of a ring) within which a jewel is set. Compare bezel.
- There is an almost invisible collet that secures the stone to the ring.
- Horticulture: in an embryonic plant, the transition zone between the root and the hypocotyl. (Not clearly distinguishable in most plants.)
- Collar rot forms in the collet between the stem and the root.
Rhizophora development structures and stages, from embryo on parent plant, to rooted seedling, showing collet
Translations
A band, flange, ferrule, or collar, usually of a hard material, especially a metal
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ring's rim holding a jewel
Etymology 2
Noun
collet (plural collets)
- Alternative form of colet