What is the meaning of Rivet?

A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.

Any fixed point or certain basis.

A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.

To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.

To install rivets (see Usage notes).

To command the attention of.

To make firm or immovable.

weather strip, draught excluder

edging, piping

hints, traces

rivet (mechanical fastener)

third-person singular present active subjunctive of rīvō

definite singular of riv

Source: wiktionary.org