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, sheep shearing
• Clipping (computer graphics), only drawing things that will be visible to the viewer
• Clipping (gardening), pruning, removing unwanted portions from a plant
• Clipping (hockey), hitting an opposing player below the knees
• Clipping, an illegal block from behind, below the waist, in American football: see American football rules
• 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, clipping all or part of the fur of a horse short, usually to help it to keep cool when working

See also

• Clip (disambiguation)