clipper

Noun

• scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)

• shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural)

• a fast sailing ship used in former times

• (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
  • a limiter introduces amplitude distortion
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  clipper ship , limiter