Cam
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A cam is a mechanical linkage which translates motion.
Cam or CAM may also refer to:
People
- Cam Archer (born 1982), an American filmmaker, writer, and photographer
- Cam Cairncross (born 1972), a former Australian Major League Baseball pitcher
- Helen Cam (1885-1968) English historian
- Sandra Cam (born 1972), Belgian freestyle swimmer
- Cam Cameron (born 1961), a former NFL head coach
- Cam Gigandet (born 1982), an American actor
- Cam Janssen (born 1984), an American-born professional ice hockey player
- Cam Neely (born 1965), a former Canadian-born professional ice hockey player
- Cam Ward (born 1984), a Canadian-born professional ice hockey goaltender
- Cam Woolley (born 1957), a Canadian television journalist and former police officer
- DJ Cam (born Laurent Daumail in 1973), a French DJ
Abbreviations
- Camelopardalis, standard astronomical abbreviation
- A camera or webcam
- Spring-loaded camming device a type of rock climbing protection equipment
- Camarilla (fan club), a literary fanclub of WhiteWolf games
- Short for Camille
- Short for Camden
- Short for Cameron
- A nickname for the rapper Cam'ron
- Chorioallantoic membrane, a structure found in developing eggs
- Cambridge
Acronyms
- Canadian Association of Magicians
- Central Attacking Midfielder, a position in soccer
- Clube Atlético Mineiro, a popular Brazilian football team
- Compagnie Aerienne du Mali
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, an indigenous Mapuche organization in Chile
- Crassulacean acid metabolism, a water-conserving metabolic process of most succulent plants
- Cell adhesion molecule, a type of protein present on the surface of cells
- Conditional Access Module, a hardware facility relating to TV broadcasts
- Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, Mapuche indigenous rights organization
- Catapult Aircraft Merchantman, see CAM ship
- Current Account Mortgage, a type of offset mortgage that uses a single account
- Central American Ministries, a Jesuit mission in Central America
- Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, a Spanish savings bank.
Designation codes
- CAM, ICAO airline designator for Camai Air
- CAM, station code for the Camberwell railway station, Melbourne
- CAM, Amtrak station code for the Camden Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot, South Carolina, United States
Museums
- Cartoon Art Museum, an art museum in San Francisco, California
- Castle Air Museum, an air museum in Atwater, California
- Chinese American Museum, an ethnic museum in Los Angeles
- Cincinnati Art Museum, an art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio
Computing
- Computer-aided manufacturing, techniques for employing computers in manufacturing processses
- Conditional access module, an electronic device for allowing access to scrambled television programmes
- Content-addressable memory, a type of computer memory
- CAM Table, a system memory used to dereference Media Access Control (MAC) addresses
- Content Assembly Mechanism, defines how information exchanges should occur between computer systems
- Categorical abstract machine, the machine behind the Caml and Ocaml languages
- Cellular automata machine, a computer dedicated to execution of cellular automaton processing
- Computer aided mural, digital printing method to create murals
Rivers
- River Cam, Cambridgeshire
- River Cam (Gloucestershire)
- River Cam (Somerset)
- Cam Brook, Somerset a small river in Somerset, England
- Cam River, Marlborough in New Zealand
- Cam River / Ruataniwha in Canterbury, New Zealand
Places
- Cam, Gloucestershire, a village in Gloucestershire, England
- Cambridgeshire, which has the Chapman code "CAM"
- Cam Mountains , An Giang Province, Vietnam
Proteins
- Cell adhesion molecule, a protein located on a cell surface involved with the binding with other cells
- Calmodulin (CaM), a calcium-binding protein
Miscellaneous
- CAM ship, a type of World War II merchant ship which could launch, but not recover, a fighter aircraft
- Cam (bootleg), a form of motion picture copying
- Centrifuge Accommodations Module, a cancelled component of the International Space Station
See also
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