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. Coin clipping is the act of shaving off a small portion of a Precious metal coin for Profit. This article relates to birds For clipped-wing Aircraft, see Wing. In rendering, clipping refers to an optimization where the computer only draws things that might be visible to the viewer In Gardening, clipping is equivalent to Pruning, the practice of removing Diseases overmature or otherwise unwanted portions from a Plant. Clipping is a penalty in the sport of Ice hockey. It is generally recognized as hitting an opposing player at or below the other player's knees Parts of this article need to be merged into American Football, and parts of that article need to be merged here Clipping is the cutting-out of articles from a Paper Publication. In Phonetics, clipping is the process of shortening the Articulation of a phonetic segment, usually a Vowel. In Linguistics, clipping is the Word formation process which consists in the reduction of a word to one of its parts (Marchand1969 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. Clipping is a Surgical procedure performed to treat an Aneurysm. Clipping is 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. Clipping is a form of Waveform distortion that occurs when an Amplifier is overdriven which happens through attempts to increase the voltage or current In photography clipping is the loss image information where a region of a Photograph is brighter than the capabilities of the imaging system or outside the Color gamut The clipped areas turn to pure white.
  • soft clipping
• Horse clipping[1]

See also

• Clip (disambiguation)

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