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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cam/kam/

▶noun

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

2 short for camshaft.

– origin C18: from Du. kam ‘comb’, as in kamrad ‘cog wheel’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
CAM/kam/

▶abbreviation computer-aided manufacturing.

'cam' also found in these Oxford entries:

CAM - cameo - cam follower - eccentric - tappet - throw - wiper

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