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cam
1[kam]
noun
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.
Automotive Slang.camshaft.
verb (used with object)
to provide (a machine part or mechanism) with a cam or cams.
cam
2[kam]
noun
a camera, especially one that records video (often used in combination, as in ).
She's a professional photographer who uses state-of-the-art cams.
Cam
3[kam]
noun
a river in E England flowing NE by Cambridge, into the Ouse River. 40 miles (64 km) long.
CAM
4[kam]
Cam.
5abbreviation
Cambridge.
CAM
1abbreviation
complementary and alternative medicine
computer-aided manufacture
botany crassulacean acid metabolism: a form of photosynthesis, first described in crassulaceous plants, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night
Cameroon (international car registration)
-cam
2combining form
camera
webcam
Cam
3/ æ /
noun
a river in E England, in Cambridgeshire, flowing through Cambridge to the River Ouse. Length: about 64 km (40 miles)
cam
4/ æ /
noun
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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cam2
Origin of cam3
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cam1
Example Sentences
Mr Andersen said his father-in-law, who was carrying a spare key at the time, had unexpected extra mileage on the clock, his dash cam had been wiped and cables disconnected.
The biologist is executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit that operates the 24-hour nest cam monitoring the feathered family in a towering Jeffrey pine that overlooks Big Bear Lake.
So that I feel is a more nuanced thing where, for instance, I know with a lot of those cams, those nest cams, the public gets very upset.
The 37-year-old “Blink Twice” actor shared his statement hours after police body cam footage of his interaction with a law officer surfaced Thursday evening.
I didn't have the security cam footage or any of that.
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