cam
A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into…A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
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Meaning
6 sensesA turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
(UK, dialectal)A ridge or mound of earth.
A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
(informal)Camera.
A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
- a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
- a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River
Examples
11 sentencesDo you have a dash cam?
I installed a nanny cam.
I have a dashboard cam.
Yanni leaves the nanny cam on 24/7.
Tom turned his body cam off.
Translations
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Origin
Clipping of camera.Clipping of camera.
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