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clip⋅per

  [klip-er]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that clips or cuts.
2. Often, clippers. (often used with a plural verb) a cutting tool, esp. shears: hedge clippers.
3. Usually, clippers. (usually used with a plural verb) a mechanical or electric tool for cutting hair, fingernails, or the like: He told the barber, “No clippers on the sides, please.”
4. Nautical. Also called clipper ship. a sailing ship built and rigged for speed, esp. a type of three-masted ship with a fast hull form and a lofty rig, built in the U.S. from c1845, and in Great Britain from a later date, until c1870, and used in trades in which speed was more important than cargo capacity.
5. Electronics. a device that gives output only for an input above or below a certain critical value.
6. a person or thing that moves along swiftly.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see clip 1 , -er 1
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clip·per   (klĭp'ər)   
n.  
  1. One that cuts, shears, or clips.
  2. An instrument or tool for cutting, clipping, or shearing. Often used in the plural: nail clippers.
  3. Nautical A sharp-bowed sailing vessel of the mid-19th century, having tall masts and sharp lines and built for great speed.
  4. One that moves very fast.
  5. Electronics See limiter.
lim·it·er   (lĭm'ĭt-ər)   
n.  
  1. One that limits: a limiter of choices.
  2. Electronics A circuit that prevents the amplitude of a waveform from exceeding a specified value. Also called clipper.
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Clipper

Clip"per\, n. 1. One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.

The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. --Locke.

2. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

3. (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. -- Clip"per-built`, a.

Note: The name was first borne by "Baltimore clippers" famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : clipper
Spanish: tijeras de podar; cortaúñas,
German: das Schneidegerät,
Japanese: はさみ
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clipper 
c.1330, from clippen "shorten," perhaps infl. by M.Du. klepper "swift horse," echoic. The type of fast sailing ship so called from 1830, from clip (1) in alternate sense of "to move or run rapidly."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Clipper
1. An integrated circuit which implements the SkipJack algorithm. The Clipper is manufactured by the US government to encrypt telephone data. It has the added feature that it can be decrypted by the US government, which has tried to make the chip compulsory in the United States. Phil Zimmerman (inventor of PGP) remarked, "This doesn't even pass the sniff test" (i.e. it stinks).
(http://wired.com/clipper/).
alt.privacy.clipper
2. A compiled dBASE dialect from Nantucket Corp, LA. Versions: Winter 85, Spring 86, Autumn 86, Summer 87, 4.5 (Japanese Kanji), 5.0. It uses the Xbase programming language.
(2004-09-01)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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