an object that has two hinged parts and that opens and closes like a clamshell, as a laptop computer or a box with a cover joined on one side: This clamshell is lightweight, convenient, and as powerful as my desktop computer.
Machinery. Also called clamshell bucket .a dredging bucket opening at the bottom, consisting of two similar pieces hinged together at the top.a machine equipped with such a bucket.
Printing. a platen press.
adj. 形容词 adjective
of or noting an object that opens and closes like a clamshell: a clamshell phone; clamshell packaging.
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Logee’s once considered plastic clamshell packaging, but Amy Miller, production manager at the Connecticut-based company, says that type of container only works well when most of your plants are the same size and shape.
Plastic waste — all those bags, fast-food clamshells, water bottles and the like — is a massive global problem.
They also found that unlike the tight eukaryotic nucleosomes, the Slinky-like archaeasomes flop open stochastically, like clamshells.
Using computer simulations and electron microscopy experiments on the genetic material of Methanothermus fervidus, a heat-loving archaeal species, the researchers found the Slinky-like shapes opened and closed in a clamshell motion.
However, it does so with a more traditional clamshell design.
And so Ab slid down the tree, clamshell in hand, and began laboring vigorously at the spot agreed upon.
It was not a difficult task for a strong boy to cut through tough grass roots with the keen edge of the clamshell.
The co-pilot closed the clamshell doors, and it became possible to hear oneself think again.
It ended astern in a clumsy-looking bulge that was closed by a pair of huge clamshell doors, opening straight astern.
He was eyeing the clamshell and looking more and more uneasy.