0 a button, zip, or other device for temporarily joining together the parts of things such as clothes -- 纽扣；拉链；扣件
1 a device on a window, door, box, etc. for keeping it closed -- （窗、门、盒子等的）扣件，紧固件
Relatively high number of fasteners needed.
No one is interested in zip fasteners per se or buys them for their own sake.
By 1977, we were importing £10 million worth of parts and completed zip fasteners and exporting only £7·1 million worth.
Various examples have been quoted—the 1,600 types of windows becomes 200; twist drill varieties go from 200 to 77; fasteners from 405 to 186 sizes.
The world as a whole is making too many tubes and too many industrial fasteners.
Such names formed part of the vocabulary wherever in the world people spoke of engineering, industrial fasteners, tubes, chains and cables, boilers, lifting gear, and so on.
When the fasteners were put back in there could not be a tight fit between the side skins and the longerons and that compromised the aeronautical integrity of the aircraft.
In particular, buttons, fasteners and zippers shall be kept closed.
