Sentence examples for collet from inspiring English sources
noun
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.
The inner end is pinned into a collet (a small collar), which fits friction-tight on the balance staff, while the outer end is held in a stud fixed to the movement.
Usually, on the inside of the collet a short distance from the edge, there is a protrusion on which the stone rests.
The setting can have a round, square, oval, or rectangular collet (rim); in periods in which gems were mounted in their own irregular shapes, the collet followed this form.
He had hoped that granny would be gone by the time he came out of collet, and then he could take a trip around the world with the money.
Musk shared a video of the landing and subsequent explosion, adding: "Falcon lands on droneship, but the lockout collet doesn't latch on one [of] the four legs, causing it to tip over post landing.
He was grouped by the critic Henri Collet with the young composers whom Collet called Les Six.
The element was discovered in 1803 in the acid-insoluble residues of platinum ores by the English chemist Smithson Tennant; the French chemists H.-V. Collet-Descotils, A.-F. Fourcroy, and N.-L.
The French chemists Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils, Antoine-François Fourcroy, and Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin identified the two metals at about the same time.
Her director on Unknown, Jaume Collet-Serra, concurs.
The director, Jaume Collet-Serra ("Orphan"), tells the story from Harris's point of view, and, as he staggers around the city (dark and wet, like the New York in "The Adjustment Bureau"), Collet-Serra uses a subjective camera to put us inside Harris's sense of exclusion, inside his forlornness and his paranoia.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra; written by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell, based on the novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert; director of photography, Flavio LaBiano; edited by Tim Alverson; music by John Ottman and Alexander Rudd; production design by Richard Bridgland; costumes by Ruth Myers; produced by Joel Silver, Leonard Goldberg and Andrew Rona; released by Warner Brothers Pictures.
