meaning of cam

1. 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. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
3. 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. A ridge or mound of earth.
5. Crooked.
6. CAM 1. architecture> content addressable memory. 2. computer aided manufacturing.
7. a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

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