Clipping
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Clipping has several meanings:
- Coin clipping, shaving off a small portion of precious metal for profit
- Wing clipping, trimming a bird's primary flight feathers to disable flight
- Clipping (computer graphics), only drawing things that will be visible to the viewer
- Clipping (gardening), or pruning, removing unwanted portions from a plant
- Clipping (hockey), hitting an opposing player below the knees
- Clipping (American football), an illegal block from behind, below the waist
- Clipping (publications), the cutting-out of articles from a paper publication
- Clipping (phonetics), shortening the articulation of a speech sound, usually a vowel
- Clipping (morphology), the formation of a new word by shortening it, e.g. ad from advertisement
- Clipping (medicine), used to treat an aneurysm
- Clipping (signal processing), a form of distortion that limits a signal once it exceeds a threshold. Some forms include:
- clipping (audio), the clipping of the top and bottom of a sound wave, referred to as distortion or overdrive
- clipping (photography), the clipping of overexposed area by digital cameras and film. The clipped areas turn to pure white.
- soft clipping
- Horse clipping[1]
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