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Another word for clamp

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Noun
      1. A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip; a brooch.
      2. (Informal) A quick sharp blow:
      3. Cartridge clip
      1. Any of various devices for supporting a weak or malformed part of the body: often intended for permanent use in contrast to a splint or cast
      2. (Music) A leather loop that slides to change the tension on the cord of a drum.
      3. A device for setting up or maintaining tension, as a guy wire
      1. A metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration to show a subsequent award of the same medal or to specify the type or place of service
      2. A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
      3. A small metal bar or other device attached to the ribbon of a military decoration to indicate the action or service for which it was awarded or an additional award of the same medal.
      1. Visa
      2. A device, usually fastened to a workbench, consisting of two jaws opened and closed by a screw, lever, etc. and used for holding firmly an object being worked on
      3. A heavy clamp, usually mounted on a workbench and operated by a screw or lever, used in carpentry or metalworking to hold a piece in position.
    See also:

    lock

    fastener

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Sentence Examples

  • The clamp around her released.

  • C is the clamp and M the slow motion in position angle.

  • The needle a being suspended between the jewels, and the needle b being held in the clamp, the cross-arm carrying the reading microscopes and the needle b is rotated till the ends of the needle a coincide with the cross-wires of the microscopes.

  • Attached to the cross-arm which carries the microscopes used to observe the ends of the dipping needle is a clamp, which will hold the needle b in such a way that its plane is parallel to the vertical circle and its axis is at right angles to the line joining the two microscopes.

  • The needle b is then substituted for a, there being now no needle in the clamp attached to the microscope arm, and the difference between the reading now obtained and the dip, together with the weight added to the needle, gives the product of the moment of the needle b into the earth's total force.

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