Cam (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. 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. camshaft.
verb (used with object), cammed, cam·ming.
  1. to provide (a machine part or mechanism) with a cam or cams.
noun
  1. a camera, especially one that records video (often used in combination, as in digital cam; traffic cam; webcam): She's a professional photographer who uses state-of-the-art cams.
noun
  1. a river in E England flowing NE by Cambridge, into the Ouse River. 40 miles (64 km) long.
noun
  1. computer-aided manufacturing.
abbreviation
  1. Cambridge.
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
noun
  1. a river in E England, in Cambridgeshire, flowing through Cambridge to the River Ouse. Length: about 64 km (40 miles)
abbreviation for
  1. complementary and alternative medicine
  2. computer-aided manufacture
  3. 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)
n combining form
  1. camera
Cam (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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