Real Dictionary

-cam in British English
combining form in countable noun: camera

CAM in American English
a moving piece of machinery, as a wheel or projection on a wheel, that gives an eccentric rotation or a reciprocating motion to another wheel, a roller, a shaft, etc., or that receives such motion from it
Central America
acronym: computer-aided manufacturing
noun: 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
transitive verb: to provide (a machine part or mechanism) with a cam or cams

Cam in American English 1
river in EC England, flowing through Cambridge: 40 mi (64 km)

Cam in American English 2
Cambodia

cam in Automotive Engineering
noun: A cam is a shaped part in machinery such as an engine that rotates in order to cause another part to move or lift.

Cam in British English
abbreviation for: complementary and alternative medicine
noun: a river in E England, in Cambridgeshire, flowing through Cambridge to the River Ouse. Length: about 64 km (40 miles)

cam in British English 1
noun: 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

cam in British English 2
noun

cam in Mechanical Engineering
noun: A cam is a sliding or rotating part of irregular profile that contacts another part and makes that part move in a backward and forward motion.

Cam. in American English
abbreviation: Cambridge