Clamp

Clamp may refer to:

Tools and devices

• Clamp (tool), a device used to hold an object in a fixed position
• Brick clamp, an early method of baking bricks
• Castration clamp, a tool used to castrate animals
• Nipple clamp, a clamp that can be applied to the nipples of either men or women
• Riser clamp, a device used to support vertical piping
• Storage clamp, an agricultural root crop storage
• Wheel clamp, a device used with road vehicles to prevent theft or enforce parking restrictions

Biology

• Clamp (zoology), an attachment structure found in certain parasitic flatworms
• Clamp connection, a structure formed by hyphal cells of certain fungi

Electronics, Programming, and medicine

• Clamp (circuit), a voltage limiting electrical circuit
• Clamp meter, a device for measuring electric current
• Clamping (graphics), the process of limiting a position to an area
• Clamp (programming), a function that constrains a real number to an interval [a,b]: clamp(x) = max(a,min(x,b))
• Glucose clamp technique
• clampf or clampi, color amplitude data types in OpenGL
• Voltage clamp, a device used to measure ion transport across cells

People

• Clamp (manga artists), stylized as CLAMP, an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid-1980s
• Eddie Clamp (1934–1995), English footballer
• Paula Clamp (born 1967), novelist, playwright and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ulster
• Shirley Clamp (born 1973), Swedish pop singer
• Steve Clamp (born 1977), British freelance journalist and newsreader
• Ted Clamp (1924–1990), English footballer
• William Clamp (1891–1917), VC (28 October 1891 – 9 October 1917) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross

Fictional entities

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

Other uses

• CLAMP (Climate leaf analysis multivariate program) - a method for characterizing past climates