Clamp
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Clamp may refer to:
Tools and devices
- Clamp (tool), a device used to hold an object in a fixed position
- Brick clamp, an early method of baking bricks
- Castration clamp, a tool used to castrate animals
- Nipple clamp, a clamp that can be applied to the nipples of either men or women
- Riser clamp, a device used to support vertical piping
- Storage clamp, an agricultural root crop storage
- Wheel clamp, a device used with road vehicles to prevent theft or enforce parking restrictions
Biology
- Clamp (zoology), an attachment structure found in certain parasitic flatworms
- Clamp connection, a structure formed by hyphal cells of certain fungi
Electronics, Programming, and medicine
- Clamp (circuit), a voltage limiting electrical circuit
- Clamp meter, a device for measuring electric current
- Clamping (graphics), the process of limiting a position to an area
- Clamp (programming), a function that constrains a real number to an interval [a,b]: clamp(x) = max(a,min(x,b))
- CLAMP Toolkit, clinical language annotation, modeling and processing, a language processing library, specifically developed for clinical narratives.
- Glucose clamp technique
- clampf or clampi, color amplitude data types in OpenGL
- Voltage clamp, a device used to measure ion transport across cells
People
- Arthur Clamp (1884–1918), English footballer
- Clamp (manga artists), stylized as CLAMP, an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid-1980s
- Eddie Clamp (1934–1995), English footballer
- Paula Clamp (born 1967), novelist, playwright and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ulster
- Shirley Clamp (born 1973), Swedish pop singer
- Steve Clamp (born 1977), British freelance journalist and newsreader
- Ted Clamp (1924–1990), English footballer
- William Clamp (1891–1917), VC (28 October 1891 – 9 October 1917) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
Fictional entities
- Clamp, a character in the television show Galactik Football
- Clamps (Futurama), a member of the Robot Mafia in Futurama
Other uses
- CLAMP (Climate leaf analysis multivariate program) - a method for characterizing past climates
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