Crocodile clip

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A crocodile clip or alligator clip is a plier-like spring-tensioned metal clip with elongated, serrated jaws that is used for creating a temporary electrical connection. This simple mechanical device gets its name from the resemblance of its jaws to those of a crocodile or alligator.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Crocodile clip”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: ByxXaVvi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.