Cam

UK: 'CAM': /ˈkæm/; 'cam': /'kæm/ US: (kam)

Inflections of 'cam' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

cams

v 3rd person singular

camming

v pres p

cammed

v past

cammed

v past p

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Cam / kæm/ noun

1. a river in E England, in Cambridgeshire, flowing through Cambridge to the River Ouse. Length: about 64 km (40 miles)

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cam  (kam), n., v., cammed, cam•ming. 
n. 

1. Mechanical Engineering [Mach.] 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. Automotive camshaft.

v.t. 

3. Mechanical Engineering to provide (a machine part or mechanism) with a cam or cams.

• Dutch or Low German kam, kamm. See comb¹

Cam  (kam), n. 

1. Place Names a river in E England flowing NE by Cambridge, into the Ouse River. 40 mi. (64 km) long. Also called Granta. 

CAM  (kam), n. 

1. Computing, Business computer-aided manufacturing.

• 1965–70

Cam., 

1. Place Names Cambridge.

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CAM abbreviation

1. computer-aided manufacture

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cam / kæm/ 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

Etymology: 18th Century: from Dutch kam comb

cam / kæm/ noun

short for camera

verb (cams, camming, cammed)

1. (intransitive) to perform activities (esp of a sexual nature) in front of a webcam at the request of paying clients

ˈcammer noun

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-cam combining_form:in_noun:countable

1. camera: webcam