clamp
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
Other meanings
An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
A kind of
- holding device
Kinds of clamp
- pipe clamp
- press
Word history
From Middle Dutch "clamp".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “clamp” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.