Clamp

Quick meaning: Clamp is a noun meaning A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.

Meaning

A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
2. (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
3. A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
5. (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
6. (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.
7. A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.

Example Sentences

the policeman with clamping feet

I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.

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 […]

[T]he pots would be stacked in a heap, covered with wood chippings and brushwood and domed over with turves, leaving a few air vents around the sides. When complete the clamp would be fired[.]

Word Forms

• clamps
• clamping
• clamped

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ferrule, fasten, stake, vise, pincer, crowbar.

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