clamp: significato e definizioni

Any of various devices used to join, grip, support, or compress mechanical or structural parts.

Any of various tools with opposing, often adjustable sides or parts for bracing objects or holding them together.

To fasten, grip, or support with or as if with a clamp.

To establish by authority; impose: clamped a tax on imports.

clamp down To become more strict or repressive; impose controls: clamping down on environment polluters.