Cam

Definition: Cam

Cam

Noun

1. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.

Date "cam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	CAM 1. content addressable memory. 2. computer aided manufacturing. (1999-09-17). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Mechanical Engineering	Rotary or sliding piece of machinery that imparts motion to a roller moving against its edge or to a pin free to move in a groove on its face or that receives motion from such a roller or pin. Source: European Union. (references)
Census	(Census Administrative Manual) Part of the Census Bureau Directives System. The official medium of the Census Bureau for publishing internal administrative policy, regulations, and procedures. These directives are issued in the form of CAM Chapters. The other part of the directives system is the Census Administrative Memorandum Numbered Series (i.e., Numbered Memos). The Numbered Memo series contains policy and administrative information issued on an interim basis or policy not covered in a CAM Chapter. The Numbered Memos are available on the Census Bureau cc:Mail electronic bulletin board. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	Each of the two legs, together forming a V-shaped member, which are operated by the reciprocating motion of another machine part through two trip dogs so as to carry out an oscillating motion about their common shaft. The device operates like an inverted cam. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CAM	Danish	Datamat-støttet produktion	Computing, Mechanical Engineering
CAM	English	Commonwealth Association of Museums	N/A
CAM	French	Correctif monétaire	N/A
CAM	German	CAM	Computing, Mechanical Engineering
CAM	Italian	Fabbricazione assistita da calcolatore	Computing, Mechanical Engineering
CAM	Portuguese	Produção assistida por computador	Computing, Mechanical Engineering
CAM	Swedish	Datorstödd tillverkning	Computing, Mechanical Engineering
CAMP	English	CAM position	Computing
CAMP	Greek	θέση CAM	Computing
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Instrument	Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cam

English words defined with "cam": Balthasar, Balthazar ♦ cam stroke, Cambridge ♦ distributor cam, distributor housing ♦ Heart wheel ♦ stroke, Swash plate ♦ Tappet motion, throw, triphammer, Trippet. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cam": arcuate guide ♦ BALANCER, SCALE, BENCH HAND, Blanton cam ♦ Cam and Isis, CAM plants, cam plate, Camelopardus, Campceiling, Casagrande liquid limit apparatus, Castaly, complementary and alternative medicine, content addressable memory, corder, cording-machine operator, cross wheel mechanism, curvilinear guide, curvilinear guide way ♦ disk cam ♦ ENGRAVER, TIRE MOLD ♦ field return repairer, FOUR-SLIDE-MACHINE SETTER, FRAZING MACHINE ♦ gear-and-spline grinder, geneva cross mechanism, Geneva mechanism, Geneva wheel, graduate tucker, grind crank, GRINDER SET-UP OPERATOR, GEAR, TOOL ♦ inspector, scales, inverse cam ♦ Jeffrey diaphragm jig ♦ maltese cross mechanism ♦ OUTBOARD-MOTOR TESTER ♦ peripheral cam, periphery cam, PIGMENT FURNACE TENDER, plate cam, pleater, production repairer, push rod ♦ Railways, reversing dog, Rittinger table, RIVETING-MACHINE OPERATOR I, ruching-machine operator ♦ semiautomatic control, skid-machine operator, slack adjuste, slow-banking device ♦ TESTER, MOTORS AND CONTROLS, THERMOSTAT REPAIRER, TORSION SPRING COILING MACHINE SETTER, trip dog, trip-over stop, TUCKING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ unlockable rod. (references)

Etymologies containing "cam": Kam. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cam" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Indonesian (attention, interest), Manx (bent, crooked, deceitful, deformed, intricate, knotty; cam, perverse, rakish angle, wry), Portuguese (computer-aided manufacturing), Romanian (a little, about, approximately, around, circa, pretty, rather, roundabout, some, somewhat, somewhere, thereabouts, to some extent), Scottish (bent, blind of one eye, crooked, distorted), Turkish (glass, glazed, glazing, peeper, vitreous, window), Welsh (crooked, injury, step, wrong, wry).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's time for some Cam Dunleavey magic (The Zack Files; writing credit: Thomas Breinholt)
Lyrics	But you cam I was so tempted to gamble on love just one time (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois) She like Cam stop frontin' (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron)
Song Titles	Cam Ye O'er Frae France (performing artist: Steeleye Span)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	CAM Commerce Solutions, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) CAM International Holdings Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Turkiye Sise Ve Cam Fabrikalari A.S.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Manufacturing (CAM) and Engineering (CAE) in Canada: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference) CAD, CAM and CAE Hardware in Singapore: A Strategic Entry Report, 1995 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery (Cam Jansen Adventure, 18) (reference) Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Haunted House (reference) Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game: Level 2 (Young Cam Jansen, 1) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Cam Bulletin (reference) Cam Magazine (reference) Cam News (reference) Cam Report (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Desperate Dan Show Me Cam (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	IConcepts 69152 Dual Mode Web Cam Kit USB) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Cepco Tool BoWrench BW1002 Tongue and Groove Cam Attachment (reference) Delta 43-189 Cam Action Clamp for Sliding Shaper Jig (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Crewman passes a five-inch rocket, as the ship loads ammunition at the U.S. Naval Support Facility, Cam Ranh Bay, Republic of Vietnam, July 1969. Photographed by PH3 W.D. Newton. Credit: NAVY.		Steam engine, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Steam engine, cam ring and hammer shaft] / BH Latrobe Surv. Plic Bldgs U.S. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Guillaume Apollinaire	''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		People use CAM treatments and therapies in a variety of ways. (references)
		What Are the Domains of Alternative Medicine? The list of CAM practices changes continually. (references)
		Next, we will introduce you to official information sources on CAM relating to Marfan syndrome. (references)
Business		CAM (Computer-Assisted Manufacturing) software is used in industrial manufacturing. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Cam" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "Cam" is used about 374 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	64.71%	242	19,213
Noun (proper)	31.02%	116	29,969
Unclassified Items	4.28%	16	87,710
Total	100.00%	374	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "cam" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Cam	Last name	200	30,655
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "cam": actuating cam ♦ admission cam ♦ cam gear ♦ cam lobe ♦ cam plate ♦ CAM position ♦ cam shaft ♦ cam stroke ♦ cam turning ♦ Cam wheel ♦ disk cam ♦ distributor cam ♦ inverse cam ♦ peripheral cam ♦ periphery cam ♦ plate cam ♦ steady cam ♦ trip cam. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cam": CAM-6, cam-action, cam-corder, cam-cutting, cam-i, CAM-PC, cam-wood.
	Ending with "cam": twin-cam.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prodhim i kompjuterizuar. (various references)

Arabic		‏كامة في المحرك, ‏حدبة (boss, bunch, hunch, mogul, process, prominence, protuberance, tuber). (various references)

Bulgarian		зъбец (claw, clutch, denticle, indent, indentation, jag, merlon, prong, snap fastener, tooth, wiper), ексцентрик (eccentric, odd-ball, tappet, wiper), палец (cog, finger, locking-finger, pawl, pollex, thumb). (various references)

Chinese		凸轮. (various references)

Czech		vaèka. (various references)

Danish		V-formet pal (catch, inverse cam), pal (bolt, catch, click, detent, inverse cam, latch, lock, pawl, phase alternate line, phase alternation line, pin, programmable array logic, rack element, ratchet). (various references)

Dutch		drijfstang (catch, connecting rod, conn-rod, con-rod, inverse cam, link rod, piston rod, pitman, push rod). (various references)

Farsi		تپه کوچک (Hillock, Midden). (various references)

Finnish		CAMP-pääte (administration and maintenance position, CAM position, CAMP, configuration, control), vinotappi (cam finger), nokkalevy (cam disc, cam plate), nokka-akseli (cam shaft, camshaft), irtikytkentänokka (deflecting cam). (various references)

French		came (candy). (various references)

German		nocken (cam plate, disk cam, lifter, peripheral cam, periphery cam, plate cam, projections, spur, wiper). (various references)

Greek		κνώδακας (catch, inverse cam, lifter, wiper), έκκεντρο κινητήρα, έκκεντρο, ανάστροφος κνώδακας (catch, inverse cam). (various references)

Hebrew		פקה (boss, cap). (various references)

Hungarian		bütyök (Bunion, gnarl, joint, knob, knobble, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, lobe, nipple, node, snag, tappet, teeth, tooth). (various references)

Indonesian		bubungan (pitch, ridge, ridgepole). (various references)

Italian		camma (lifter, wiper). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		コンピューター援用生産 (computer-aided manufacture), カポシ肉腫 (camellia, camembert, cameo, camera, camera angle, camera position, camera rehearsal, camera reportage, camera work, camera-eye, cameraman, camomile, camouflage, CAMUS, chameleon, collar, collarless, color, color arrangement, color box, color combination, color conditioning, color coordinator, color display, color dynamics, color ink, color marking pen, color mechanical tint, color planning, color rinse, color screentone, color spraypaint, colored, colored steel sheet, colorless, colour, comeback, cummerbund, French cognac, kapok, Kaposi sarcoma, kayak, younger members of the group). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		コンピューターえんようせいさん (computer-aided manufacture), カム . (various references)

Korean		캠. (various references)

Manx		cam (bent, crooked, deceitful, deformed, intricate, knotty; cam, perverse, rakish angle, wry). (various references)

Pig Latin		amcay.(various references)

Portuguese		ressalto (bounce, bouncing, bound, dap, heatspot, jut, ledge, lobe, lug, overhang, prominence, prominency, recoil, resilience, resiliency, rising, salience, shoulder, tappet), motor excêntrico, excêntrico (barmy, bizarre, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, kinky, lunatic, madcap, odd, oddball, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, wacky, weird, whimsical, wiper, wobbler). (various references)

Romanian		camã (cog, jaw, lobe, nose, tappet). (various references)

Russian		распределительный диск, кулачок (jaw, pawl, tappet), кулак (bunch of fives, claw, cog, dukes, fist, knuckle, kulak, mauley, mitt, wobbler), копир (former, master form), гребень (arris, comb, crest, crown, flange, hackle, peak, pectination, ridge, ruff, tongue), ассоциативная память, лекало (french curve, gauge, mould, pattern, template), патрон (cartridge, collet, holder, jig, lamp holder, lamp socket, patron, round). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		breg (berg, hillock). (various references)

Spanish		cámara (camera, cameraman, chamber, cine camera, hall, house, innertube, lieu, tire, tyre, vault), leva inversa (catch, inverse cam), leva (draft, exit, levy). (various references)

Swedish		nock (end, ridge), kam (comb), inverterad kam (catch, inverse cam). (various references)

Turkish		tırnak (claw, fingernail, nail), mil dirseği, kam. (various references)

Ukrainian		спотворений (anamorphous, awry, deformed, distorted, misshapen, putrid, strained, truncated), кулачковий диск, кулачок (tappet), кулак (claw, cog, fist, nieve), кривий (awry, bandy, bent, cripple, crook, crooked, gammy, lame, wry), гребінь (apex, back, band, comb, crest, crown, flange, hip, ruff, wedge), вал (axle, bank, billow, bulwark, water-wave, wave), викручений, викривлений (curved, twisted, wry), насип (bank, banking, banquette, bund, embankment, mound), ексцентрик (eccentric). (various references)

Vietnamese		trục cam (cam-shaft). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Dutch	700-Modern	cam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 16, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	ParelqonteV de thn musian katebhsan eiV trwada
Latin	405	Vulgate	Cum autem pertransissent Mysiam descenderunt Troadem
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But whanne thei hadden passid bi Mysie, thei camen doun to Troade;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Then they went over Misia and cam doune to Troada.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they, passing by Mysia, came down to Troas.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And going past Mysia, they came down to Troas.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 16, Verse 8
Albanian	Kështu, pasi e përshkuan Misinë, zbritën në Troas.
Cebuano	tungod niini sila milugsong ngadto sa Troas, agi sa kayutaan sa Misia.
Croatian	Onda proðoše Miziju i siðoše u Troadu.
Danish	De droge da Mysien forbi og kom ned til Troas.
Dutch	En zij, Mysie voorbij gereisd zijnde, kwamen af tot Troas.
Finnish	Niin he vaelsivat ohi Mysian ja menivät Trooaaseen.
French	Ils franchirent alors la Mysie, et descendirent à Troas.
German	Sie zogen aber an Mysien vorüber und kamen hinab gen Troas.
Haitian Creole	Yo pase nan Mizi san rete, yo desann lavil Twoas.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Jadi mereka menerusi Misia dan langsung ke Troas.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka sambil melalui negeri Misia, mereka itu turun ke Teroas.
Italian	così, attraversata la Misia, discesero a Troade.
Korean	무 시 아 를 지 나 드 로 아 로 내 려 갔 는 데
Maori	Na kapea ana Maihia, ka haere ki Toroa.
Norwegian	så drog de da utenom Mysia og drog ned til Troas.
Portuguese	Então, passando pela Mísia, desceram a Trôade.
Rumanian	Au trecut atunci prin Misia, wi s`au pogorkt la Troa.
Russian	нЙОПЧБЧ ЦЕ нЙУЙА, УПЫМЙ ПОЙ Ч фТПБДХ.
Shuar	Tuma asamtai Misia nunkanam menantki Truas péprunam pachiniawarmiayi.
Spanish	Entonces, después de pasar junto a Misia, descendieron a Troas.
Swahili	Basi, walipitia Musia, wakaenda moja kwa moja mpaka Troa.
Swedish	Då begåvo de sig över Mysien ned till Troas.
Uma	Toe pai' raliu tana' Misia, pai' -ra mana'u hilou hi ngata Troas to hi wiwi' tahi'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cam": camail, camailed, camails, camaraderie, camaraderies, camarilla, camarillas, camas, camases, camass, camasses, camber, cambered, cambering, cambers, cambia, cambial, cambism, cambisms, cambist, cambists, cambium, cambiums, cambogia, cambogias, cambric, cambrics, camcorder, camcorders, came, camel, camelback, camelbacks, cameleer, cameleers, camelia, camelias, camellia, camellias, camelopard, camelopards, camels, cameo, cameoed, cameoing, cameos, camera, camerae, cameral, cameraman, cameramen. (additional references)
	Words ending with "cam": minicam, scam. (additional references)
	Words containing "cam": became, bicameral, bicameralism, bicameralisms, countercampaign, countercampaigns, decameter, decameters, decamethonium, decamethoniums, decametric, decamp, decamped, decamping, decampment, decampments, decamps, elecampane, elecampanes, encamp, encamped, encamping, encampment, encampments, encamps, guacamole, guacamoles, hippocampal, hippocampi, hippocampus, intercampus, jacamar, jacamars, jicama, jicamas, mecamylamine, mecamylamines, medicament, medicamentous, medicaments, minicamp, minicamps, minicams, misbecame, multicampus, noncampus, oilcamp, oilcamps, overcame, predicament, predicaments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accm, acgm, acj, Acmh, acml, Acom, caa, caam, caama, caan, cac, Cacm, caem, cah, Cahm, caim, caj, cak, cama, camb, camc, camg, camo, Camr, camy, c'an, Capmd, caq, carm, casm, cau, caum, cax, cbm, ccan, Ccem, Ccmi, ceam, cedm, ceem, ceh, cem, Cemc, cemi, cen, cfm, Chaam, chmm, Ciam, Cifmd, Ciim, Cij, cim, cin, cism, cma, Cmaj, cmg, cmm, cmt, cmw, cnan, coam, cpan, cpm, cqa, ctan, cuan, cumm, cwm, Ecma, Kamu, kwan, Ociam, rcam, xam. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cam" (pronounced ka"m)
3	k a" m	scam.
2	-a" m	am, Bam, Nam, Pam, ram, Cham, clam, cram, dam, damn, dram, exam, Flam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, Lam, lamb, sham, slam, spam, swam, Tam, tram, wham, yam.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mac.
	Words within the letters "a-c-m"
	-1 letter: am, ma.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-m"
	+1 letter: acme, calm, came, camp, cams, cham, clam, coma, cram, cyma, mace, mach, mack, macs, marc, mica, scam.
	+2 letters: acmes, acmic, amice, amici, amnic, amuck, calms, camas, camel, cameo, cames, campi, campo, camps, campy, carom, champ, chams, charm, chasm, claim, clamp, clams, comae, comal, comas, comma, cramp, crams, cream, cymae, cymar, cymas, gamic, macaw, maced, macer, maces, mache, macho, machs, macks, macle, macon, macro, mafic, magic, malic, manic, march, marcs, match, mecca, micas, micra, mocha, musca, scamp, scams, scram, smack, sumac, umiac.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Country	Name	Country	Name
Singapore	CAM International Holdings Ltd.	Turkey	Trakya Cam Sanyii A.S. (Trakya Cam)
USA	CAM Commerce Solutions, Inc
	(more examples...)

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beach cam	1,148	crane cam	556
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cam ron	1,059	web cam site	523
free cam	1,045	video cam	522
adult free web cam	987	yahoo web cam	511
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


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Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Cam

Definition: Cam

Cam

Noun

Specialty Definition: Cam

Specialty Definition: Cam

CAM

Computer-aided manufacturing

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cam

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Crosswords: Cam

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Image Slideshow: Cam

Photos:Cam

Photo Album: Cam

Digital Photo Gallery: Cam

Familiar Quotations: Cam

Guillaume Apollinaire

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Usage Frequency: Cam

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Usage in Company Names: Cam

CAM International Holdings Ltd.

Trakya Cam Sanyii A.S. (Trakya Cam)

CAM Commerce Solutions, Inc

Expression: Cam

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cam

Modern Translation: Cam

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Bible Trace: Cam

Matched Bible Translations: Cam

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