Clamp may refer to:

Tools and devices

Brick clamp :''"Brick clamp" also refers to a device (usually powered) to lift quantities of bricks.'' A brick clamp is a traditional method of baking bricks, done by stacking unbaked bricks with fuel under or among them, then igniting the fuel. The 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 A C-clamp or G-clamp or G-cramp is a type of clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal workpiece, and often used in, but are not limited to, carpentry and welding. Often believed that these clamps are called "C" clamps because of the ...

C-clamp (stagecraft) In stagecraft, a c-clamp can refer to a number of different pieces of hardware, depending on its intended use. Lighting and sound In stage lighting and sound a c-clamp, also referred to as a pipe clamp, is used to attach a larger piece of hardw ...

** Riser clamp, a device used to support vertical piping * Nipple clamp, a sex toy *

Storage clamp A clamp is a compact heap, mound or pile of materials. A storage clamp is used in the agricultural industry for temporary storage of root crops such as potato, turnip, rutabaga, mangelwurzel, and sugar beet. A clamp is formed by excavating a sha ...

, an agricultural root crop storage *

Wheel clamp A wheel clamp, also known as wheel boot, parking boot, or Denver boot, is a device that is designed to prevent motor vehicles from being moved. In its most common form, it consists of a clamp that surrounds a vehicle wheel, designed to preven ...

, 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 DNA clamp, also known as a sliding clamp, is a protein complex that serves as a processivity-promoting factor in DNA replication. As a critical component of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, the clamp protein binds DNA polymerase and prevents ...

, a ring-like structure associated with DNA replication and other phenomena * Glucose clamp technique, a method for quantifying insulin secretion and resistance *

Patch clamp The patch clamp technique is a laboratory technique in electrophysiology used to study ionic currents in individual isolated living cells, tissue sections, or patches of cell membrane. The technique is especially useful in the study of excitabl ...

, a technique used to hold a natural cell membrane or artificial lipid bilayer

Electronics and software

* Clamping (graphics), the process of limiting a position to an area *

Clamper (electronics) A clamper (or clamping circuit or clamp) is an electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined voltage by adding a variable positive or negative DC voltage to it. The clamper does not r ...

, an electrical circuit that limits one extreme of a signal by offsetting the signal *

Clipper (electronics) In electronics, a clipper is a circuit designed to prevent a signal from exceeding a predetermined reference voltage level. A clipper does not distort the remaining part of the applied waveform. Clipping circuits are used to select, for purpose ...

, 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 *

Wire clamp Overhead power cabling. The conductor consists of seven strands of steel (centre, high tensile strength), surrounded by four outer layers of aluminium (high conductivity). Sample diameter 40 mm A wire is a flexible strand of metal. Wire is co ...

, hardware that secures wire or cable, or a clamp made of wire * Wire clamp connector, a solderless electrical connector using screws or crimping

Fictional characters

* Clamp, a character in the television show ''Galactik Football'' *

Clamps 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 u ...

, 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) Clamp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur Clamp (1884–1918), English footballer *Eddie Clamp (1934–1995), English footballer * Paula Clamp (born 1967), novelist, playwright and Visiting Lecturer at the University of ...

, a surname * (90+) * (includes redirects) {{Disambiguation