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clam

any of various burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Mya, Venus, etc. Many species, such as the quahog and soft-shell clam, are edible and Tridacna gigas is the largest known bivalve, nearly 1.5 metres long
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clam

[klam]
(invertebrate zoology)
The common name for a number of species of bivalve mollusks, many of which are important as food.
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clam

The bucket of a clamshell.
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CLAM

(mathematics, tool)
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].
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