Word Finder - clamp

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A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.

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An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.

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A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

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A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.

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A pile of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth.

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A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.

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An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.

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To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.

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To hold or grip tightly.

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To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range.

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To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

The clamp around her released.

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

When combined with the optimized triple clamp and front wheel axle design, the result is an outstanding front-end rigidity.

Pull up the empty ink cartridge clamp all the way.

We are also studying the ion channels that regulate calcium movements across the cell membrane using patch clamp electrophysiology.

Clamp the hair is a section no thicker than ¼" inch as close to the scalp as possible, using extreme caution to avoid scalp burns.

Current clamp and voltage clamp experiments revealed multiple effects of 5-HT on the intrinsic excitability of CN neurons.

Diagram of the patch clamp technique - click on the thumbnail to enlarge.

For obvious reasons, the tube should be securely fastened to the pump, e.g. with a hose clamp.

Then you spot the fully polished steering damper with chromed rod fixed to the steering head with an aluminum clamp.

Then, to our utter dismay, we watched Mr Clamp light the petrol-soaked hay with a burning brand!

The heavy duty table clamp allows the lamp to be used with a table easel, on a draughting table or a work bench.

A number of techniques are used including patch clamp electrophysiology, video and fluorescence imaging.

Temporarily remove the eyepiece and clamp the Camera lucida to the top of the eye tube, then replace the eyepiece.

Clamping the rubber gaiters to the new stainless steel seal holders was easy, however there was nowhere to clamp the top end to.

When clamping together protect units by using hardboard off cuts or similar behind the clamp jaws.

Gas assist injection molding is a low pressure process, reducing the clamp tonnage required for molding.

Marine grade stainless steel jubilee clips secure the clamp to the pony bottle.

The new Hinge clamp range uses revolutionary kinematics to offer double-acting, low-cost hydraulic clamping with numerous mounting and connection options.

We have used laser microsurgery to dissect single cells to gain access to the plasma membrane for patch clamp recording.

The stem of the clamp has serrations for quick height adjustment within the collar and the screw is used to apply the final pressure.

With distributor clamp bolt slackened off you can gradually rotate the body to advance or retard the timing.

The base is solid lead, making the clamp extremely sturdy.

Clamp the haft vertically in the vise, and using a tenon saw, cut a slot about half the depth of the socket.

The " jaws " of the clamp meter are opened by squeezing the trigger on the left-hand side.

The corrugated tubing is snapped into the clamp where it is securely held.

The top clamp uses a lightweight aluminum steering stem nut and a thin 1 mm stainless steel washer.

The micrometer is now clamped in position-angle by the clamp C, the star again brought back to the axis, and delicate adjustment given in position-angle by the slow-motion screw M, till the star-image remains bisected whilst it traverses the whole length of the position-web by the diurnal motion only.

K is the clamp in position angle, P the slow motion screw in position-angle; pp is the position circle, R, R its two readers.

Minor improvements in tangent sights certainly were made, notably an automatic clamp, but quadrant elevation was mainly used, and in the case of guns equipped with position-finders (see Range-Finder) the guns could be layed for direction by means, of a graduated arc on the emplacement and a pointer on the mounting.

Re-use of tires includes weighing down silage clamp coverings, recycling includes paper etc taken to local authority amenity sites.

The sitter 's head is held still by a clamp.

On the way out I spent another tenner on a set of large wad punches, a C clamp and a bundle of lighters.

The chairs are attached to the cable either by a steel cable grip or clamp.

Her heartbeat was shallow and fast; her head felt like it was in a clamp.

The inverted tube, with its suspended water, being held in a clamp, a beaker containing a few drops of ether is brought up from below until the free surface of the water is in contact with ether vapour.

One to clamp the aorta and one to clamp the graft when testing the upper anastomosis.

His face goes ashen when her teeth clamp around him!

Pull the adaptor through the register plate hole and tighten the clamp around it.

The post mounting clamp supplied enables the antenna to be fixed to a suitable horizontal or vertical post of up to 20mm diameter.

There should be about 2mm of aorta visible below the aortic clamp.

The Bulldog Centaur is a popular Sold Secure and adjustable wheel clamp Why wheel clamps for security?

The unique universal clamp will fit any table with a parasol hole 30-60mm in diameter.

This piled in either a disused silage clamp, or taken to the field and placed in the windrow.

The range improves on the specification of the toggle clamp tripods that it replaces.

Be very quick to close the common femoral clamp to minimize blood loss and loss of heparin saline.

You'll coax them to "Leave it," and they will not release it; instead they use their jaws and clamp down on whatever it is you are trying to take away from them.

In circumcision of infant boys, the foreskin is pulled tightly into a specially designed clamp.

Pressure from the clamp stops bleeding from blood vessels that supplied the foreskin.

Clamp the hair is a section no thicker than ¼" inch as close to the scalp as possible, using extreme caution to avoid scalp burns, With a steady hand, pull the iron down the shaft of the hair, and release when you reach the ends.