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CAM

[kam]

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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.

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Origin:
< Dutch or Low German kam, kamm. See comb¹

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noun

a river in E England flowing NE by Cambridge, into the Ouse River. 40 miles (64 km) long.

Also called Granta.

noun

computer-aided manufacturing.

Origin:
1965–70

Cambridge.

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cam (kæm)

—n
	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

[C18: from Dutch kam comb]

Cam (kæm)

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

CAM

—*abbreviation for*
1.	complementary and alternative medicine
2.	computer-aided manufacture
3.	botany crassulacean acid metabolism: a form of photosynthesis, first described in crassulaceous plants, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night
4.	Cameroon (international car registration)

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Word Origin & History

cam

1777, from Du. cam "cog of a wheel," originally "comb;" cognate of English comb (q.v.). This might have combined with English camber "having a slight arch;" or the whole thing could be from camber.

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Slang Dictionary

cam (red) definition

n.
Cambodian red marijuana. : He claims he scored some cam.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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