clamp
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”). Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.
Noun
clamp (plural clamps)
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
- (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
- A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
- A pile of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth.
- A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
Derived terms
- clover clamp
- nipple clamp
- sliding clamp
Translations
woodworking tool
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surgical instrument
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References
Storage clamp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Clamper (electronics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
- (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range.
- 2016, Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11 (page 253)
- After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]
- 2016, Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11 (page 253)
- (UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
Derived terms
Translations
to fasten in place or together
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to hold or grip
See also
Etymology 2
Imitative.
Noun
clamp (plural clamps)
- (dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
Verb
clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)
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