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🗜️ Compression
Also known as: Clamp, Table Vice, WinZip
Unicode: U+1F5DC, U+FE0F
Description
A metal clamp or vice, as screwed to hold or compress materials like wood or metal. Depicted as a C-clamp or F-clamp, its screw in various positions. Commonly used for various content concerning tools, equipment, and technology. May also represent file compression in computer science. An image of a clamp, for example, is featured in the WinZip icon. Twitter’s clamp is red. Samsung’s design previously featured a clamp around a cardboard box.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:7.0
Keywords
clampcompresstoolvice
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :clamp: | |
| GitHub | :clamp: | |
| Slack | :compression: | |
| Discord | :compression: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> User interface symbols
Definition:
A metal C-clamp showing a screw which can be tightened to compress two objects (such as pieces of wood) together. This tool is often used in http://emojipedia.org/compression/
Verbs:
- Squeeze or press together
- To press together into a smaller space.
- To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- To compress, squeeze
- Fasten or fix with a clamp
- To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
- Impose or inflict forcefully
- Work with a tool
Nouns:
- Physical item that can be used to achieve a goal
- Mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- An implement used in the practice of a vocation
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process.
- Any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal
- Tool
- A device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
- A device used to hold an object in a fixed position
- A clamp is a fastening device to hold or secure objects tightly together to prevent movement or separation through the application of inward pressure.