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 Brick#Methods of manufacture, baking bricks, done by stacking unbaked bricks with fuel under or among them, then ...

, an early method of baking bricks *

Clamp (tool) A clamp is a fastener, 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 fo ...

, 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 hose clamp is a device used to attach and seal a hose (tubing), hose onto a fitting such as a barb (hose), barb or nipple (plumbing), nipple. Materials The core range of hose clamps on the open market are made from materials like stainles ...

, a device to secure a hose to a fitting *

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 clothespin, clothes-pin-style, tweezer and clover. Nipple Clamp (tool), clamps are used to cause pain in the nipples as pa ...

, a sex toy * Storage clamp, 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 clamp connection is a hook-like structure formed by growing hyphal cells of certain fungi. It is a characteristic feature of basidiomycete 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 Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of al ...

, 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 Cell isolation, isolated living cells, tissue sections, or patches of cell membrane. The technique is especially useful in the st ...

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

Electronics and software

Clamp (function) In computer science, clamping, or clipping is the process of limiting a value to a range between a minimum and a maximum value. Unlike wrapping, clamping merely moves the point to the nearest available value. In Python, clamping can be defin ...

, the process of limiting a value to a particular range *

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 ...

, 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 purpos ...

, 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 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 iter ...

, a technique and device used to measure ion transport across cells

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