This settings applies to all clipboard operations, the simplest of which are the following

examples: Var = %Clipboard% and Clipboard = New Text.

Whenever the script is waiting for the clipboard to become available, new threads cannot be
launched and timers will not run. However, if the user presses a hotkey, selects a custom menu
item, or performs a GUI action such as pressing a button, that event will be buffered until later; in
other words, its subroutine will be performed after the clipboard finally becomes available.
This directive also causes the reading of clipboard data to be reattempted if the first attempt fails
(in prior versions, only the opening of the clipboard was reattempted).
Related
Clipboard, Thread
#ClipboardTimeout
Changes how long the script keeps trying to access the clipboard when the first attempt fails.
#ClipboardTimeout Milliseconds
Parameters
Milliseconds
The length of the interval in milliseconds. Specify -1 to have it keep trying
indefinitely. Specify 0 to have it try only once. Scripts that do not contain this
directive use a 1000 ms timeout.
Remarks
Some applications keep the clipboard open for long periods of time, perhaps to write or read
large amounts of data. In such cases, increasing this setting causes the script to wait longer
before giving up and displaying an error message.