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
• Nipple clamp, a sex toy
• 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
• C-Clamp (stagecraft)

Biology and medicine

• Clamp (zoology), an attachment structure found in some parasitic flatworms
• Clamp connection, a structure formed by hyphal cells of certain fungi
• DNA clamp, a ring like structure associated with DNA replication and other phenomena
• Glucose clamp technique, a method for quantifying insulin secretion and resistance
• Patch clamp, a technique used to hold a natural cell membrane or artificial lipid bi-layer

Electronics and software

• 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
• clampf or clampi, color amplitude data types in OpenGL
• Voltage clamp, a device used to measure ion transport across cells

Fictional characters

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

Other uses

• Clamp (surname), a surname
• Clamp (manga artists), stylized as CLAMP, an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid-1980s
• CLAMP (Climate leaf analysis multivariate program), a method for characterizing past climates