cam

[kam] /kæm/
noun
1.
Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
2.
Automotive Slang. camshaft.
verb (used with object), cammed, camming.
3.
to provide (a machine part or mechanism) with a cam or cams.
Origin
< Dutch or Low German kam, kamm. See comb1

Cam

[kam] /kæm/
noun
1.
a river in E England flowing NE by Cambridge, into the Ouse River. 40 miles (64 km) long.
Also called Granta.

CAM

[kam] /kæm/
noun
1.
computer-aided manufacturing.
Origin
1965-70

Cam.

1.
Examples from the web for cam
  • Dlc is used in bearings, cams, cam followers, and shafts in the automobile industry.
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  • cam says everyone became exposed to it from graveyard dirt and no quarantine is imposed.
British Dictionary definitions for cam

cam

/kæm/
noun
1.
a slider or roller attached to a rotating shaft to give a particular type of reciprocating motion to a part in contact with its profile
Word Origin
C18: from Dutch kam comb

Cam

/kæm/
noun
1.
a river in E England, in Cambridgeshire, flowing through Cambridge to the River Ouse. Length: about 64 km (40 miles)

CAM

abbreviation
1.
complementary and alternative medicine
2.
computer-aided manufacture
3.
(botany) crassulacean acid metabolism: a form of photosynthesis, first described in crassulaceous plants, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night
4.
Cameroon (international car registration)
Word Origin and History for cam
n.

"a projecting part of a rotating machinery," 1777, from Dutch cam "cog of a wheel," originally "comb;" cognate of English comb (n.). This might have combined with English camber "having a slight arch;" or the whole thing could be from camber.

abbreviation of camera, by 1990.

cam in Technology
Related Abbreviations for cam

CAM

  1. Camelopardalis (constellation)
  2. Cameroon (international vehicle ID)
  3. computer-aided manufacturing

cam.

camouflage

Cam.

Cambridge