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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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(51.) See, e.g., Eiji Oguma, A genealogy of "Japanese" Self-Images 143-55 (2002); Sabine Fruhstuck, Treating the Body as a Commodity: "Body Projects" in Contemporary Japan, in Consumption and material Culture in Contemporary Japan 143-48 (Michael Ashkenazi & John Clammer eds., 2000); Id.
Hundreds of "clammers" pulled freshwater mussels from the state's river bottoms to harvest the raw material used to make mother-of-pearl buttons.
Not that he should be a clammer. Although a few days out on the flats wouldn't kill a guy like you.
Although Japan couldn't possibly accomplish modernization without following the lead of the West, Clammer's argument may provoke reflections on its relatively smooth modernization as compared with the bumpy experience of China.
A clammer arose for a more basic rifle eliminating such niceties as the expensive battle sights and slimming down the handguard by trimming the cluster of Picatinny rails.
Stanley, 'Japan as a Model for Economic Development: The Example of Singapore,' in Eyal Ben-Ari and John Clammer, eds, Japan in Singapore: Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows, Curzon Press, 2000, pp.
All that changed in 2000 when my wife and I joined Wisconsin native and former commercial clammer Tony Toye on the Mississippi River's Pool 9 near Ferryville, Wis.
Clammer Terry Wilkins has worked the bay since he was 11, and now, in his 50s, is still passionate about the trade.
This may be partly influenced by the renewed interest in animism among anthropologists more generally (Bird-David 1999; Clammer, Poirier and Schwimmer 2004; Descola 1992; Viveiros de Castro 1998) which in turn is not unrelated to the rise of interest, outside anthropology, in the relations between humans and material objects in science and technology studies, and actor network theory.
Clammer, John 1973 'Colonialism and the perception of tradition in Fiji', in: Talal Asad (ed.), Anthropology and the colonial encounter, pp.
If you have been sucked in by the clammer for 4x4s but don't want to compromise your beliefs or pay through the nose then the Kuga is a great go-anywhere alternative.
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