Definitions for CAM

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CAM cam

Spelling: [kam]

IPA: /kæm/

Cam is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in CAM (acm).

Definitions for CAM

noun

1. 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.
2. Automotive Slang. camshaft.
3. a camera, especially one that records video (often used in combination, as in digital cam; traffic cam; webcam):
4. a river in E England flowing NE by Cambridge, into the Ouse River. 40 miles (64 km) long.
5. computer-aided manufacturing.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide (a machine part or mechanism) with a cam or cams.

Origin of CAM

Dutch or Low German kam, kamm. See comb¹

Examples for CAM

Same-sex marriage is legalized in California, meaning that Mitch and cam (Eric Stonestreet) can get married.

Or again, he would know that the effect could be achieved by a cam.

And as he cam towarde them, he askyd and sayd: is he fat, is he fat?

He's jist as dour as ever, and as far as man could weel be frae them he cam o'!

Then came the clamoring for what people wanted Mitch and cam to represent, more than what they maybe actually did.

How monumental, though, that this wedding introduced us, for the first time as husbands, Mitch and cam.

You might have suspected it when you saw Mitch and cam get married.

And it's no the first time he's been owre there to see me sin' he cam hame!'

A former student named cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement.

The morn's mornin' cam, an' by that time I had decided on my plan o' operautions.