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.

Alternative form of colet (“lower servant in a church”).

plural of collet

Alternative form of colletor

A surname originating as a patronymic.

plural of colleter

plural of garde-collet

(rare) Synonym of passguard, neck guard (plate on shoulder-armor to protect neck)

(botany) A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion; a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.

plural of colletor