Clamp

Clamp may refer to:

Tools and devices

• Brick clamp, an early method of baking bricks
• Clamp (tool), a device or tool used to hold objects in a fixed relative position (many types listed)
  • C-clamp
  • C-clamp (stagecraft)
  • Riser clamp, a device used to support vertical piping
  • Hose clamp, a device to secure a hose to a fitting
• Nipple clamp, a sex toy
• Storage clamp, an agricultural root crop storage
• Wheel clamp, a device used with road vehicles to prevent theft or enforce parking restrictions

Biology and medicine

• CLAMP (Climate leaf analysis multivariate program), a method for characterizing past climates
• Clamp (zoology), an attachment structure found in some parasitic flatworms
• Clamp connection, a structure formed by hyphal cells of certain fungi
• DNA clamp, a ring-like structure associated with DNA replication and other phenomena
• Glucose clamp technique, a method for quantifying insulin secretion and resistance
• Patch clamp, a technique used to hold a natural cell membrane or artificial lipid bilayer

Electronics and software

• Clamp (function), the process of limiting a value to a particular range
• Clamper (electronics), an electrical circuit that limits one extreme of a signal by offsetting the signal
• Clipper (electronics), an electrical circuit that limits one extreme of a signal by holding the signal back
• Current clamp, a device for measuring electric current
• Voltage clamp, a technique and device used to measure ion transport across cells

Fictional characters

• Clamp, a character in the television show Galactik Football
• Clamps, a member of the Robot Mafia in Futurama

Other uses

• CLAMP, an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid-1980s
• Clamp (surname), a surname
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