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cams, plural;
  1. A projection on a rotating part in machinery, designed to make sliding contact with another part while rotating and to impart reciprocal or variable motion to it

  1. a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River
  2. a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
  3. A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion or vice-versa. It is often a part of a rotating wheel (e.g. an eccentric wheel) or shaft (e.g. ...
  4. Cham Albanians, or Chams (Çamë, Τσάμηδες Tsámidhes), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the coastal region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria. ...
  5. A cam (or camming, deriving from camera) is a bootleg recording of a film. Unlike the more common DVD rip or screener recording methods which involve the duplication of officially distributed media, cam versions are original clandestine recordings made in movie theaters.
  6. A spring-loaded camming device (also SLCD, cam or friend) is a piece of rock climbing or mountaineering protection equipment. It consists of three or four cams mounted on a common axle or two adjacent axles, so that pulling on the axle forces the cams to spread farther apart. ...
  7. Content-addressable memory (CAM) is a special type of computer memory used in certain very high speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory, associative storage, or associative array, although the last term is more often used for a programming data structure. ...
  8. In Western culture, alternative "medicine" is any healing practice "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine", or "that which has not been shown consistently to be effective. ...
  9. Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Common Area Maintenance (Real Estate); Computer Aided Manufacturing (Manufacturing); Campeche, a state of Mexico
  10. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it; A camming device, aspring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice; To go on webcam with someone
  11. (camming) Camcording; the illegal re-recording of films on camcorder in a cinema
  12. (Camming) The act of rotating into place until wedged or tight.
  13. (Camming) Usually made of brass, lead, or zinc, camming is the material used to bond decorative glass components.
  14. (Cams) A spring-loaded device used as protection.
  15. (Cams) eccentric shafts used in most internal combustion engines to open and close valves.
  16. (CAMS) Commerce Administrative Management System
  17. (CAMS (Computer Audit Menu System)) System used to extract necessary data and print reports directly from taxpayer's computer tapes so that auditor can perform computer-assisted audit
  18. (CAMS) Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist, USMA certification of an individual's knowledge of SI and ability to use SI in engineering/scientific/technical areas. See also CMS, LCAMS, LCMS.
  19. (CAMS) Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.
  20. (Cams) The wheels on a compound bow have a 'cam shape' to one side that controls the amount of force and the shape of the draw/force curve of the bow. Many different cam shapes are available to choose from.
  21. (Cams) Used as protection when trad climbing. The device has a trigger which allows it to be expanded to fit a crack or contracted for removal. Also called Camalots or Caming Devices.
  22. Usually a tongue fixed to the end of the plug of a cylinder lock or latch.
  23. A cam is a theater rip usually done with a digital video camera. A mini tripod is sometimes used, but a lot of the time this wont be possible, so the camera make shake. Also seating placement isn’t always idle, and it might be filmed from an angle. ...
  24. The interactive use of computers systems, programs, and procedures in various phases of a manufacturing process wherein, the decision-making activity rests with the human operator and a computer provides the data manipulation functions.
  25. Short for Cameo. Also, PCGS grading suffix used for 1950 and later Proofs that meet cameo standards.