Cam.

Cam.
Cambridge.

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cam 1 «kam», noun.
a noncircular wheel mounted on a shaft that changes a regular circular motion into an irregular circular motion or into a back-and-forth motion. Cams are used to vary the speed of some mechanisms or change the direction of their movement.
╂[perhaps < Dutch kam cog]
cam 2 «kam», noun.
a camera set up to record events and transmit the pictures electronically, usually over the World Wide Web: »

Tennis fans can hop from court to court with the online cameras of Slam Cam; The spy cam movies caught an official accepting cash from a reporter and showed it on a Web site documentary.

CAM (no periods),
computer-aided manufacture: »

In CAM, the final description of the product that the computer decides upon is fed, in computer code, to a machine tool which shapes the finished object (New Scientist).

CAM.,
Cambridge.

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