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 clamp is a fastening device used to hold or secure objects tightly together to prevent movement or separation through the application of inward pressure. In the United Kingdom the term cramp is often used instead when the tool is for temporar ...

, 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 Riser clamp is a type of hardware used by mechanical building trades for pipe support in vertical runs of piping (risers) at each floor level. The devices are placed around the pipe and integral fasteners are then tightened to clamp them onto ...

, a device used to support vertical piping *

Nipple clamp A nipple clamp is a type of sex toy that is applied to a person's nipples to pinch them. Varieties of nipple clamp include clothes-pin-style, tweezer and clover. Nipple clamps are used to cause pain in the nipples as part of certain BDSM ac ...

, 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) Clamps are the main attachment structure of the Polyopisthocotylean monogeneans. Bychowsky, B. E. (1957) Monogenetic Trematodes. Their systematic and phylogeny. Akad. Nauka. USSR. English translation by the American Institute of Biological Scienc ...

, an attachment structure found in some parasitic flatworms *

Clamp connection A clamp connection is a hook-like structure formed by growing hyphal cells of certain fungi. It is a characteristic feature of Basidiomycetes fungi. It is created to ensure that each cell, or segment of hypha separated by septa (cross walls), rece ...

, 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 __NOTOC__ Glucose clamp technique is a method for quantifying insulin secretion and resistance. It is used to measure either how well an individual metabolizes glucose or how sensitive an individual is to insulin. Procedure Two types of clamp ar ...

, 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) In computer graphics, clamping is the process of limiting a position to an area. Unlike wrapping, clamping merely moves the point to the nearest available value. To put clamping into perspective, pseudocode (in Python) for clamping is as follow ...

, 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 In electrical and electronic engineering, a current clamp, also known as current probe, is an electrical device with jaws which open to allow clamping around an electrical conductor. This allows measurement of the current in a conductor without t ...

, a device for measuring electric current *

Voltage clamp The voltage clamp is an experimental method used by electrophysiologists to measure the ion currents through the membranes of excitable cells, such as neurons, while holding the membrane voltage at a set level. A basic voltage clamp will iterativ ...

, 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 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 ...

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