cam
IPA: kˈæm
noun
- A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
- A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
- (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
- (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
- (informal) Camera.
- A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.
- A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400).
- A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
- A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.
- Initialism of complementary and alternative medicine.
- (real estate) Initialism of common area maintenance.
- Initialism of computer-aided manufacturing.
- (aviation) Initialism of cockpit area microphone.
- (medicine) Initialism of cell adhesion molecule.
- (US, historical, philately) Initialism of contract air mail (often followed by the route number, eg, CAM 21).
- (computing) Initialism of content-addressable memory.
- Abbreviation of Campeche, a state of Mexico. [A state of Mexico.]
verb
- To go on webcam with someone.
adverb
- Alternative form of kam
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Examples of "cam" in Sentences
- That is, the dwell of the cam takes up any slack.
- The cam may be a rotary cam or a linearly slidable cam.
- It is really only the lip of the punch that touches the cam.
- A helical cam surface is provided at the end of the inner barrel.
- The inner end of the shaft cams the keeper aside to permit assembly.
- A cam is used to impel the cutter and its drive shaft along its path.
- The cam drum is frictionally coupled to one of the flanges of the reel.
- The pin cooperates with the cam and cam slot for ejecting the cartridge.
- As the string is drawn the cam turns and imparts force to compress the limb.
- In the preferred embodiment the cam sector is fixed to the eccentric bushing.