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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. (cam) a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River
  2. (cam) 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. (Çam) 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. (Cam (Climbing)) 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. ...
  6. (CAM (computing)) Content-addressable memory (CAM) is a special type of computer memory used in certain very high speed searching applications. ...
  7. (CAM (medicine)) 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. ...
  8. (Cam (movie piracy)) 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.
  9. (CAM) Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Common Area Maintenance (Real Estate); Computer Aided Manufacturing (Manufacturing); Campeche, a state of Mexico
  10. (cam) 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. (CAM) Common Area Maintenance
  12. (cam) Usually a tongue fixed to the end of the plug of a cylinder lock or latch.
  13. (Cam) Short for Camshaft, an engine piece that activates the valves
  14. (CAM) Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
  15. (CAM) Short for "Cameo," proof coins that have frosted devices and lettering that contrast with the shinier fields
  16. (Cam (of a cylinder)) A rotating piece attached to the end of the cylinder plug to engage the locking mechanism.
  17. 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. ...
  18. (Cam) Generic term for mechanical spring-loaded devices of varying sizes and manufacture (Friends, Camalots, TCU's, etc) which can be inserted in cracks to secure a climbing rope.
  19. (Cam) an egg shaped wheel / pulley on a limb(s) of compound bows used to store energy and provide let-off
  20. (CAM) Controlled access mode.
  21. (cam) Generic term for Spring Loaded Camming Device (SLCD)
  22. (Cam) The river is really the Granta but the town's name of Grantabrycge mutated into Cambridge by Elizabethan times, so by back-formation the river became the Cam.
  23. (CAM: (Computer-Aided Manufacturing)) Working from a product design likely to exist in a CAD database, CAM encompasses the computer-based technologies that physically produce the product, including part-program preparation, process planning, tool design, process analysis, and part processing by ...
  24. (CAM (Common Access Method)) A committee formed in 1988 that consists of several computer peripheral suppliers and is dedicated to developing standards for a common software interface between SCSI peripherals and host adapters.
  25. (CAM (Computer-Assisted Manufacturing)) CAM is the actual prototyping of the project. Milling is guided by the commands of computer software for a custom jewelry design that fulfills exact specifications. ...