Thesaurus: cam

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1. n. 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.
2. n. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
3. n. 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.
4. n. A ridge or mound of earth.
5. a. Crooked.
6. n. a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
7. n:100 n. a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River n. a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion