clamp

n : a device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly

together

v 1: fasten or fix with a clamp; "clamp the chair together until

the glue has hardened"

2: impose or inflict forcefully; "The military government

clamped a curfew onto the capital"

CLAM

A system for {symbolic mathematics},

especially General Relativity. It was first implemented in

{ATLAS} {assembly language} and later {Lisp}.

See also {ALAM}.

["CLAM Programmer's Manual", Ray d'Inverno & Russell-Clark,

King's College London, 1971].

(1994-11-08)