rivet

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You can get a 40$ sheet metal brake at harbor freight and a blind rivet setup for 20$.

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ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

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noun

ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

noun

heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together

verb

direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rivet.

noun

ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

noun

heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together

verb

direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

See also: concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore

verb

fasten with a rivet or rivets

verb

hold (someone's attention); "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"

Example sentences

You can get a 40$ sheet metal brake at harbor freight and a blind rivet setup for 20$.

In real engineering, when you build a bridge, a single rusty rivet won't cause it to fall down.

> In real engineering, when you build a bridge, a single rusty rivet won't cause it to fall down.

Bridges get built by rigorous design and constructed a rivet by rivet or bolt by bolt.

Implementations may be hammers, screwdrivers, rivet guns, or glue.

It's probably a plastic rivet holding the plastic aeroshield Elon mentions as the first line of impact absorption.

For instance while as a programmer, my bugs might crash a computer, for them, an unused rivet hiding in the bottom of an engine might clog a fuel line and crash a plane.

Imagine doing a carpentry job and finding inside your box of 2000 nails a "rare and special" piece of metal that isn't a nail, but can do the job of a nail, screw, brad, rivet, and/or wi-fi hotspot.

This new approach almost seems like teaching civil engineers how to weld and rivet in order to build bridges, rather than deeply understanding the mathematical theory behind stress and vectors.

The numbers have been crunched: it is vastly, vastly more efficient to treat fraud as a cost of doing business than it is to tighten the screws 100%The attack surface on software the size and complexity of a bank's is like the Death Star, except any single rivet being out of place will eventually result in this headline.