What is "clamp"

Clamp \Clamp\ (kl[a^]mp), n. [Cf. LG. & D. klamp, Dan. klampe, also D. klampen to fasten, clasp. Cf. Clamber, Cramp.]

1. Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

2. 1. An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

   2. (Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

3. One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

4. (Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

5. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

6. A mollusk. See Clam. [Obs.]

   Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

Clamp \Clamp\ (kl[a^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clamped (kl[a^]mt; 215) p. pr. & vb. n. Clamping.]

1. To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

2. To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.]

Clamp \Clamp\, n. [Prob. an imitative word. Cf. Clank.] A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Clamp \Clamp\, v. i. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.

The policeman with clamping feet.
--Thackeray.

device for fastening, c.1300, probably from clamb, perhaps originally past tense of climb (v.), or from Middle Dutch clampe (Dutch klamp), from West Germanic *klamp- "clamp, cleat;" cognate with Middle Low German klampe "clasp, hook," Old High German klampfer "clip, clamp;" also probably related to Middle Dutch klamme "a clamp, hook, grapple," Danish klamme "a clamp, cramp," Old English clamm "fetter;" see clam (n.).

"to fasten with a clamp," 1670s, from clamp (n.). Related: Clamped; clamping.

n. 1 A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together. 2 A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking. 3 A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard. 4 A heavy footstep; a tramp. 5 (Electronics) Electronic circuit to fix a voltage (see http://en.wikipedi

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2. 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a '''clamp'''. 2 (context intransitive English) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp. 3 (context transitive English) To hold or grip tightly. 4 (context transitive English) To modify a numeric value so it lies within a specific range. 5 (context UK obsolete transitive English) To cover (vegetables, et

3. ) with earth.

1. n. a device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

2. v. fasten or fix with a clamp; "clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened"

3. impose or inflict forcefully; "The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital"

Clamp may refer to:

Clamps are the main attachment structure of the Polyopisthocotylean monogeneans.
These ectoparasitic worms have a variable number of clamps on their haptor (the posterior attachment organ); each clamp is attached to the host fish, generally to its gill. Clamps include sclerotised elements, called the sclerites, and muscles. The structure of clamps varies according to the groups within the Polyopisthocotylean monogeneans; microcotylids have relatively simple clamps, whereas gastrocotylids have more complex clamps.

A clamp is a fastening device used to hold or secure objects tightly together to prevent movement or separation through the application of inward pressure. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term cramp is often used instead when the tool is for temporary use for positioning components during construction and woodworking; thus a G cramp or a sash cramp but a wheel clamp or a surgical clamp.

There are many types of clamps available for many different purposes. Some are temporary, as used to position components while fixing them together, others are intended to be permanent. In the field of animal husbandry, using a clamp to attach an animal to a stationary object is known as "rounded clamping." A physical clamp of this type is also used to refer to an obscure investment banking term; notably "fund clamps." Anything that performs the action of clamping may be called a clamp, so this gives rise to a wide variety of terms across many fields.

Although technically not a clamp, gripping elements mounted on the buckets of heavy duty equipment are referred to as clamps too.

is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid-1980s. It consists of leader , and three artists whose roles shift for each series: , , and . Almost 100 million Clamp tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide as of October 2007.

Beginning as an eleven-member dōjinshi circle in the mid-1980s, they began creating original work in 1987. By the time they debuted with RG Veda in 1989, the group was reduced to seven members. In 1993, three more members left, leaving the four members who are currently still part of the group. In 2006, the members decided to change their names; Ohkawa later changed her name back from Ageha Ohkawa to Nanase Ohkawa, while the other three members retained their new names.