clamshell
蛤壳,蚌壳,壳体,蛤蜊壳
Definitions
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- : the shell of a clam.
- : 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.
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- : of or noting an object that opens and closes like a clamshell: a clamshell phone; clamshell packaging.
Examples
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.