Cam definition
Computer-aided manufacturing.
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(place) River in EC England, flowing through Cambridge: 40 mi (64 km)
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Cambodia.
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Cameroon.
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(geo, place, proper) Central America.
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Computer-aided manufacturing.
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A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
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(UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
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A wheel that has a projecting part and is mounted on a rotating shaft to produce variable or reciprocating motion in another part.
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Complementary and alternative medicine.
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A moving piece of machinery, as a wheel or projection on a wheel, that gives an eccentric rotation or a reciprocating motion to another wheel, a roller, a shaft, etc., or that receives such motion from it.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
cam
Plural:
camsOrigin of cam
- Dutch kam cog, comb gembh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Wiktionary
- From camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamara, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”)
From Wiktionary