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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 digital cam traffic cam webcam ):
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 for
- Cambridge.
CAM
1abbreviation for
- 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/ kæm /
noun
- a river in E England, in Cambridgeshire, flowing through Cambridge to the River Ouse. Length: about 64 km (40 miles)
cam
4/ kæm /
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of cam2
Origin of cam3
Word History and Origins
Origin of cam1
Example Sentences
In other footage she can be heard asking an officer to turn off their body cam.
Anyone travelling along the motorway at the time of the incident, with information or dash cam footage is asked to contact police.
Filmmaker Bill Morrison assembled a multiperspective view of the fatal “Incident” through available video footage, including from police body cams.
Almost that exact same scene happens again in Rachel Fleit’s documentary “Sugar Babies” when a cam girl tromps into the woods for a rendezvous with a paying stranger.
The Big Bear Bald Eagle cam lets you can watch expectant parents Jackie and Shadow tend to the three eggs in their nest.
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