Definitions for "CRIMPING"
Connecting a cable to a connector without screwing or soldering by way of a special tool.
A means of securing an electrical contact to a wire using tools that compress the metal contact around the wire.
A method of decorating the rims of bowls and vases. The glassworker used a special hand tool to manipulate the nearly-molten pressed or blown glass and form a ribbon-like design.
Creasing the bindery edges of ledger sheets to help them open more freely.
A rapid raising process by forming radiating valleys from the center to the outer edge of a metal object then raised. Generally used on thinner gauge metal.
Technique for easing fabric into the seamline.
The process that bends, waves, twists, or curls the fiber along ists length to give them more dimension.
Mechanical deformation of a deformable material, usually a metal.
Compressing a sleeve around the fiber/buffer in order to produce reliable mechanical protection.
A pressure method of mechanically securing a terminal, splice or contact to a conductor.
The forming of relatively small corrugations in order to set down and lock a seam, to create an arc in a strip of metal, or to reduce an existing arc or diameter. See also corrugating.