clamping

Verb (1)

clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
   • As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full...1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC
2. (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
3. (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
   • After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]2016, Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11, page 253
4. (UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
5. (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
   • I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.

Verb (2)

clamp (third-person singular simple present clamps, present participle clamping, simple past and past participle clamped)

1. (dated, intransitive) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
   • the policeman with clamping feet1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

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