Usually means: Clamping device for holding workpiece.
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  1. collet: Merriam-Webster
  2. collet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collet, collet: Wordnik
  7. Collet, collet: Wiktionary
  8. collet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. collet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. collet: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Collet, collet: Dictionary.com
  12. Collet (name), Collet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Collet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. collet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. collet: Rhymezone
  16. Collet, collet (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. collet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. collet: FreeDictionary.org
  19. collet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. collet: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. collet: Encyclopedia

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  1. collet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  4. Collet: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See colleting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (collet)

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.
noun:  (jewelry) The rim (of a ring) within which a jewel is set.
noun:  (horticulture) In an embryonic plant, the transition zone between the root and the hypocotyl (not clearly distinguishable in most plants.)
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  Alternative form of colet (“lower servant in a church”). [(obsolete) A lower servant in a church.]

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