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>>5333325
Sort of, but not quite.
Some magazine types will contain the clip (the American M1, and the French Berthier Model 1907/16, both using something called Mannlicher clips, or 'en-bloc' clips), but most magazine types which can be fed by clips, have you just fit the clip on the top of an open action (generally fitting into a guiding slot) to push the rounds from the clip into the fixed magazine, or use an attachment to push them into a detachable magazine, then you remove the clip from the gun or magazine, and the magazine is loaded.

Clips aren't generally used too much by most people these days though, because they were more a solution for back in the day when it was cheaper and easier to make just one good magazine and fixing it to the gun, and then you could make a bunch of cheap and simple to make metal (or even cardboard) clips, which had no real mechanical function of their own. It was harder and more expensive to make magazines back then, basically, so clips made a lot of sense in that day and age.

All that said, unless you're shooting an old gun, you generally don't deal all that much with clips. A fair few enthusiasts do enjoy old guns, but for practical purposes, more modern guns which use detachable magazines will be preferred.

If you use the word clip around an enthusiast, some will sperg a bit, others will get that you said the wrong thing but understand what you mean, while laymen wont know the difference.