Clip or CLIP may refer to:

Fasteners

* Hair clip, a device for holding hair together or attaching materials such as caps to the hair * Binder clip, a device for holding thicker materials (such as large volumes of paper) together ** Bulldog clip, a common binder clip * Paper clip, a device for holding several sheets of paper together * Climbing clip, a device used to quickly and reversibly connect elements of climbing equipment * Crocodile clip, or alligator clip, a temporary electrical connector *

Circlip A circlip (a portmanteau of "circle" and "clip"), also known as a C-clip, Rotor Clip, snap ring or Jesus clip, is a type of fastener or retaining ring consisting of a semi-flexible metal ring with open ends which can be snapped into place, into ...

, a semi-flexible metal ring fastener for holding a pin in place *

Roach clip A joint (), also commonly referred to as a "doobie" or "doob", is a rolled cannabis cigarette. Unlike commercial tobacco cigarettes, the user ordinarily hand-rolls joints with rolling papers, though in some cases they are machine-rolled ...

, a holder for smoking a cannabis cigarette *

Bread clip A bread clip is a device used to hold plastic bags closed, such as those in which sliced bread is commonly packaged. They are also commonly called bread tags, bread tabs, bread ties, bread buckles, or bread-bag clips. By sealing a bag more secure ...

, a device for closing bags * Rail clip, a rail fastener *

Money clip A money clip is a device typically used to store cash and credit cards in a very compact fashion for those who do not wish to carry a wallet. Metal A metal money clip is generally a solid piece of metal folded into half, such that the banknot ...

, a device for storing cash and credit cards in a very compact fashion

Arts and entertainment

Clip art Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is creat ...

, pre-made images used in graphic arts * Media clip, a short segment of electronic media, either an audio clip or a video clip **

Video clip Video clips refer to mostly short videos, most of the time called memes, which are short videos of silly jokes and funny clips, most of the time coming from movies or any entertainment videos such as YouTube. The term is also used more loosely to ...

* ''Clip'' (film), a 2012 film * ''Clips'' (game show), a game show that aired on YTV from 1993 to 1996

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Class II-associated invariant chain peptide, a protein involved in MHC class II assembly and transport to the cell membrane * Corticotropin-like intermediate peptide, an endogenous neuropeptide * Cross-linking immunoprecipitation, a method used in molecular biology to locate RNA modifications among others *

Cancer Likelihood in Plasma Cancer Likelihood in Plasma (CLiP) refers to a set of ensemble learning methods for integrating various genomic features useful for the noninvasive detection of early cancers from blood plasma. An application of this technique for early detection of ...

Computing and telecommunications

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training DALL-E (stylized as DALL·E) and DALL-E 2 are deep learning models developed by OpenAI to generate digital images from natural language descriptions, called "prompts". DALL-E was revealed by OpenAI in a blog post in January 2021, and uses a ver ...

, an image recognition artificial intelligence system * CLIPS, a software tool for building expert systems, including the programming language COOL * Calling line identification presentation, a Caller ID technology * Clips (software) a video editing software application created by Apple Inc.

Other uses in science and technology

Clip (ammunition) A clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a unit for insertion into the magazine or cylinder of a firearm. This speeds up the process by loading the firearm with several rounds at once, rather than one at a ...

, a device for storing multiple rounds together as a unit before inserting into a magazine or cylinder * Caribbean large igneous province, in geology, a major flood basalt * Confirmed line item performance, a measure of the reliability of supply chain delivery * Continuous Liquid Interface Production, a form of additive manufacturing that uses photo polymerization

Other uses

* Cupertino Language Immersion Program, a K-8 program in the Cupertino Union School District, California * Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, nicknamed Clips