clamp

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Unintentionally moving the jig when locking the clamp is avoided as the clamping force is applied between the handles.

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  1. noun Any of various devices used to join, grip, support, or compress mechanical or structural parts.
  2. noun Any of various tools with opposing, often adjustable sides or parts for bracing objects or holding them together.
  3. transitive verb To fasten, grip, or support with or as if with a clamp.
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  • The health club is fastened to the garage with a C-clamp, for Cleveland. —  Frank Gehry as a young rebel
  • Held snugly in an electronics clamp was a small lens-shaped piece of crystal. —  Angelmass
  • Unintentionally moving the jig when locking the clamp is avoided as the clamping force is applied between the handles. —  Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
  • There's a lot going on in the Genius's BB area and trying to fit a place for a clamp-on derailleur in there would be an incredible challenge. —  This Just In
  • The 1 1 / 8th-inch steerer tube clamp is angled to distribute stress, and the clamp bolts work in opposition to each other. —  VeloNews | The Journal of Competitive Cycling
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screw ·  latch ·  bolt ·  plug ·  lever ·  pin ·  bracket ·  lug ·  fitting ·  fastener ·  valve ·  tubing

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clamp:   clamps ·  clamped ·  clamping

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  1. Middle English, from Middle Dutch klampe.

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  1. First in early modern English (taking in part the place of the earlier clam), after Middle Dutch klampe, a clamp, hook, tenon, grapple, brace, Dutch klamp, a clamp, cleat, = Middle Low German klampe, a hook, clasp, = German dial. (Bavarian and Austrian) klampfe, G. (after Low German) klampe = Danish klampe = Swedish klamp (prob. after D.), a clamp, cleat (cf. Middle Low German klampe = Fast Friesic klampe, a bridge over a ditch); practically an extension or variant of the older clam, q. v., but in form as if from the preterit of the verb represented by Middle High German klimpfen (preterit klampf, past participle geklumpfen), draw, press, or hold fast together, which may be regarded as an extension of the orig. Teutonic (Gothic (Moesogothic)) *kliman (Anglo-Saxon *climman), preterit *klam, press or adhere together, whence also clam, q. v. The forms derived from or related to clamp are numerous: see clam, clam, etc., clamp, clamp, etc., climb, clamber, etc. Cf. also clip.
  2. = Dutch klampen, etc.; from the noun. See clam, v.
  3. Cf. D. and Low German klamp, a heap; cf. clamp, clamp, and clump.
  4. from clamp, n.
  5. apparently imitative; cf. clank, clump, tramp.
  6. Perhaps a particular use of clamp, v.
 

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