Definition of Collets

1. collet [v] - See also: collet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Collets

collembolous
collenchyma
collenchymas
collenchymatous
colles' fracture
collet
collet chuck
colleted
colleter
colleteria
colleterial
colleterium
colleting
colletor
colletors
collets (current term)
collicular
colliculate
colliculi
colliculus
colliculus cartilaginis arytenoideae
colliculus facialis
colliculus inferior
colliculus of arytenoid cartilage
colliculus superior
colliculuses

Literary usage of Collets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mechanical Engineering and Machine Shop Practice by Stanley Holmes Moore (1908)
"collets. collets, similar to drill collets, are used in the same manner and for the same ... collets. 1364. Classification and Design of Cutters and Mills. ..."

2. Automatic Screw Machines and Their Tools by Clarence Leon Goodrich, Frank Arthur Stanley (1909)
"In making a few collets at a time, however, as is generally the practice in ... It is sometimes advantageous to rough out two collets on the same piece of ..."

3. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"... HARDENING SPRING collets AND FEED CHUCKS Before hardening collets it is common practice to open them somewhat to insure their having a given tension ..."

4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"It is cut out of a solid piece of emerald of remarkably pure quality, with two emerald drops, and two collets set with rose diamonds, and ruby borders in ..."

5. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1830)
"The preceding was painted for the church of the Rf-collets, and is now in the Musee at Brussels. THE FOLLOWING AKE THE SUBJECTS OF THIRTY-SIX PIC- TUBES ..."

6. A Complete Manual of Canon Law by Oswald Joseph Reichel (1896)
"The highest of the non-hierarchical orders is that of acolytes, collets (^ or attendants (sequentes), a class of clergy peculiar to the Western Church, who, ..."

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