What is the meaning of Cam?

  • (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
  • (n.) A ridge or mound of earth.
  • (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to or receives such motion from, a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  • (a.) Crooked.
  • (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
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MLAWebster's. "cam" 27 May 2011. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/cam/definitions/1984062>
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