Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CAM
CAM
Definitions of CAM
- 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.
- To go on webcam with someone.
- (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.
- Alternative form of kam.
- A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.
- A village and cpar in, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400).
- A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
- A male given name.
- (US, historical, philately) Initialism of contract air mail (often followed by the route number, eg, CAM 21).
- Initialism of complementary and alternative medicine.
- (real estate) Initialism of common area maintenance.
- Initialism of computer-aided manufacturing.
- (aviation) Initialism of cockpit area microphone.
- (computing) Initialism of content-addressable memory.
- (medicine) Initialism of cell-adhesion molecule.
- (botany, biochemistry) Initialism of crassulacean acid metabolism.
- A @abbrev of:Campeche state in Mexico.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
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Examples of Using CAM in a Sentence
- Quoin (printing), wooden or metal wedges or cam operated devices for locking printing type into a chase.
- A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion.
- The build-up of gases inside the gas cylinder drives the long-stroke piston and bolt carrier rearward and a cam guide machined into the underside of the bolt carrier along with an ejector spur on the bolt carrier rail guide, rotates the bolt approximately 35° and unlocks it from the barrel extension via a camming pin on the bolt.
- A spring-loaded camming device (also SLCD, cam or friend) is a piece of rock climbing or mountaineering protection equipment.
- Episode 9, The Vandals Live at the House of Blues was recorded using eight cameras, including a "Josh Freese cam" with a picture-in-picture close-up of the drummer's foot-pedal.
- Mastercam is a suite of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and CAD/CAM software applications developed by CNC Software, LLC.
- The V6 PRV engine is an overhead cam V6 automobile engine designed and manufactured by the company "Française de Mécanique" for PRV, an alliance of Peugeot, Renault and Volvo Cars.
- The piston was fitted with a vertical post at its rear which rode in a helical cam track in the bolt, rotating it at the end of its travel nearest the breech.
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