Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wheel that has a projecting part and is mounted on a rotating shaft to produce variable or reciprocating motion in another part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crooked; bent or bending.
- noun A comb.
- noun A ridge, hedge, or long earthen mound.
- noun In machinery, a device for converting a regular rotary motion into an irregular, fast and slow, intermittent rotary or reciprocating motion. It properly includes the cam-wheel, plain or geared, the cam-shaft, the heart-wheel, the wiper, the wiper-wheel, and the eccentric. The simplest form is that of a heart-shaped, lobe-shaped, or otherwise eccentric wheel, which imparts motion to another wheel either by means of gearing or by rolling contact. Instead of following the irregular face of the cam-wheel, the friction-wheel may travel in a curved race or guiding path on the side of a cam-disk, as in the cam-wheel of a harvester. In another form of cam the face of the wheel is cut into gears or into projecting teeth that may engage another gear, or an arm or a pinion upon a shaft, to give a quickly changing rising and falling motion. Such cams are also called
wiper-wheels , and are used to operate stamps and tilt-hammers. The heart-wheel accomplishes the same object, but In a less abrupt manner, while eccentric cams of various shapes may impart a slow thrust and quick return, as in many machine-tools. The wiper, a cam-shaped arm, is very generally used to operate the valves of beam-engines. The cam in some of its forms appears in a great variety of machines, wherever an irregular speed or motion or a rapid reciprocating motion is required, as in the harvester, printing-press, sewing-machine, etc. A cam-shaft is a shaft having tumblers or wipers. The heart-wheel is a heart-shaped cam. (Seeeccentric .) Cams for determining motion for cutting and tracing, as in certain machines, are calledshaper-plates .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
- noun A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
- noun A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
- noun Prow. Eng. A ridge or mound of earth.
- noun (Mach.) a wheel with one or more projections (cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face; one which is set or shaped eccentrically, so that its revolutions impart a varied, reciprocating, or intermittent motion.
- adjective obsolete Crooked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Alternative form of
kam . - noun A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a
rod ,lever orblock brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. - noun rock climbing A camming device, a
spring -loaded device for effecting a temporarybelay in a rockcrevice . - noun informal
camera - verb To go on
webcam with someone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River
- noun a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Unfortunately my cam is a couple hours away and I have not been able to check it in almost a month.
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Unfortunately my cam is a couple hours away and I have not been able to check it in almost a month.
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Like Nate said, not knowing what you are going to get on a trail cam is what makes one exciting to have.
Wolfing One Down... 2009
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A Gorrilla or Yeti costume in front of the trail-cam is a good one though we've yet to follow through.
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Thu 10/22/09 9: 50 AM totally agree. mitch may be the messenger but cam is the diplomat.
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Even a relatively small chunck of rock (say in the 10 meter size range) travelling at 20000 to 50000 km/second has an huge amount of kinetic energy that cam translates into many kilotons/megatons of damage.
Today's Video - Profiling the Ares Launch Vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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Yes | No | Report from fliphuntr14 wrote 5 weeks 4 days ago yeah someone else knows the trail cam is there and just happened to find a great use for last years halloween costume .. you don't throw something like that away.
Breaking News: Minnesota Hunters Capture Bigfoot On Trail Cam 2009
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A Gorrilla or Yeti costume in front of the trail-cam is a good one though we've yet to follow through.
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Like Nate said, not knowing what you are going to get on a trail cam is what makes one exciting to have.
Wolfing One Down... 2009
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