Usually means: Tool for holding objects together.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word CLAMP:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. clamp: Merriam-Webster
  2. clamp, clamp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clamp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clamp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clamp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clamp, clamp: Wordnik
  7. clamp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Clamp: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. clamp: Wiktionary
  10. clamp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. clamp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. clamp: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. clamp: Dictionary.com
  14. clamp (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. clamp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. CLAMP, Clamp (disambiguation), Clamp (manga artists), Clamp (tool), Clamp (zoology), Clamp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Clamp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. clamp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. clamp: Rhymezone
  20. clamp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. clamp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. clamp: FreeDictionary.org
  23. clamp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. clamp: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. clamp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clamp: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clamp: Legal dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clamp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. clamp: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. clamp: Medical dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLAMP: Acronym Finder
  2. clamp: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CLAMP: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clamp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. CLAMP, the clamp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See clamped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Clamp)

noun:  A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
noun:  (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
noun:  (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
noun:  A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
noun:  (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
noun:  A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
noun:  (electronics) 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.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
verb:  (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
verb:  (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
noun:  (dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
noun:  A surname.

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