Cam (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
A cam
Cam
A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion or vice-versa. It is often a part of a rotating wheel or shaft that strikes a lever at one or more points on its circular path...

is a mechanical linkage which translates motion.

Cam or CAM may also refer to:

People

  • Cam Archer
    Cam Archer
    Cam Archer is an American independent filmmaker and photographer residing in Santa Cruz, California. His feature debut, Wild Tigers I Have Known, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film was executive produced by filmmaker Gus Van Sant and producer Scott Rudin...

     (born 1982), American filmmaker, writer, and photographer
  • Cam Cairncross
    Cam Cairncross
    Cameron Cairncross is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who debuted for the Cleveland Indians on 20 July, , and pitched his final game on 1 October of that same season....

     (born 1972), former Australian Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Helen Cam
    Helen Cam
    Helen Maud Cam was an English historian of the Middle Ages, born at Abingdon, Berkshire ....

     (1885-1968), English historian
  • Sandra Cam
    Sandra Cam
    Sandra Cam is a retired female freestyle swimmer, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Barcelona, Spain . She is best known for winning two medals at the 1993 Summer Universiade in Buffalo, United States.-References:*...

     (born 1972), Belgian freestyle swimmer
  • Cam Cameron
    Cam Cameron
    -External links:...

     (born 1961), former NFL head coach
  • Cam Gigandet
    Cam Gigandet
    Cam Joslin Gigandet is an American actor, whose roles have included Twilight, The O.C., Never Back Down, The Roommate, Burlesque and Priest.- Career :...

     (born 1982), American actor
  • Cam Janssen
    Cam Janssen
    Cam Janssen is a professional ice hockey player who plays for the New Jersey Devils. The Devils drafted him 117th overall in the fourth round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. Janssen is also known as an enforcer and 'tough guy' for his physical play and frequent fights.-Playing career:Janssen grew...

     (born 1984), American-born professional ice hockey player
  • Cam Neely
    Cam Neely
    Cameron Michael Neely is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played right wing for the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League from 1983 to 1996. He currently serves as the president of the Boston Bruins.-Playing career:Cam Neely was born in Comox,...

     (born 1965), former Canadian-born professional ice hockey player
  • Cam Newton
    Cam Newton
    Cameron Lemark Newton is a former American football safety. He played college football at Furman University, then played two seasons in the NFL, one each for the Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers. He was cut from the Panthers before the 2007 season...

     (born 1989), American football player
  • Cam Ward
    Cam Ward
    Cameron Kenneth Ward is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League . Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, he was raised in Sherwood Park, Alberta...

     (born 1984), Canadian-born professional ice hockey goaltender
  • Cam Woolley
    Cam Woolley
    Cam Woolley is a traffic and safety reporter for CP24 and a former police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police in the Greater Toronto Area....

     (born 1957), Canadian television journalist and former police officer
  • DJ Cam
    DJ Cam
    DJ Cam is a French DJ. His tunes are almost entirely a hybrid of both hip-hop and jazz music, and is presented in an abstract manner. His first LP was Underground Vibes in 1994, and was revolutionary for its time, featuring familiar jazz samples and many vibe samples and heavy hip-hop influences...

     (born Laurent Daumail in 1973), French DJ

Abbreviations

  • Camelopardalis
    Camelopardalis
    Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation in the northern sky. The constellation was introduced in 1612 by Petrus Plancius. Some older astronomy books give an alternative spelling of the name, Camelopardus.-Etymology:...

    , standard astronomical abbreviation
  • A camera
    Camera
    A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...

     or webcam
  • Spring-loaded camming device a type of rock climbing protection equipment
  • Camarilla (fan club)
    Camarilla (fan club)
    The Camarilla is the official worldwide fan organization of White Wolf Publishing. White Wolf is an Atlanta based company that specializes in fantasy and modern horror and is best-known for its role-playing games set in the World of Darkness...

    , a literary fanclub of WhiteWolf games
  • Short for Camille
  • Short for Camden
  • Short for Cameron
  • A nickname for the rapper Cam'ron
    Cam'ron
    Cameron Giles , better known by his stage name Cam'ron or "Killa Cam", is a Grammy-nominated American actor. He is the founder of the hip-hop group The Diplomats , and also of The U.N. group....

  • Chorioallantoic membrane
    Chorioallantoic membrane
    The chorioallantoic membrane — also called the chorioallantois or abbreviated to CAM — is a vascular membrane found in eggs of some amniotes, such as birds and reptiles. It is formed by the fusion of the mesodermal layers of two developmental structures: the allantois and the chorion...

    , a structure found in developing eggs
  • Cambridge
    Cambridge
    The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...


Acronyms

  • Canadian Association of Magicians
    Canadian Association of Magicians
    The Canadian Association of Magicians is dedicated to the promotion and encouragement of magic and magicians in Canada and the world. Its president is Joan Caesar. It publishes 3 Northern Peaks magazines and 10 Northern Sleights e-zines for its members annually...

  • Central Attacking Midfielder, a position in association football
  • Clube Atlético Mineiro
    Clube Atlético Mineiro
    Clube Atlético Mineiro , are a Brazilian football club based in Belo Horizonte, the oldest in the city. Founded in 1908, they play in the Campeonato Mineiro and Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão. Atlético Mineiro have been Brazilian champions once, state winners a record 40 times and...

    , a popular Brazilian football team
  • Compagnie Aerienne du Mali
    Compagnie Aerienne du Mali
    Air Mali, formerly Compagnie Aerienne du Mali , is an airline headquartered in Bamako, Mali, that was formed by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development through its subsidiary IPS, West Africa and the government of Mali in April 2005. Its inaugural flight was made on 7 June 2005 from Bamako to...

  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  • Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco
    Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco
    Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco or CAM, is a Mapuche organization dedicated to the revindication and recovery of former Mapuche lands. It was founded in 1998, in Tranaquepe, Chile, and is responsible for land occupation in the zones of Tirúa, Contulmo, Cañete and Temucuicui...

    , an indigenous Mapuche organization in Chile
  • Crassulacean acid metabolism
    Crassulacean acid metabolism
    Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions. The stomata in the leaves remain shut during the day to reduce evapotranspiration, but open at night to collect carbon dioxide...

    , a water-conserving metabolic process of most succulent plants
  • Cell adhesion molecule
    Cell adhesion molecule
    Cell Adhesion Molecules are proteins located on the cell surface involved with the binding with other cells or with the extracellular matrix in the process called cell adhesion....

    , a type of protein present on the surface of cells
  • Conditional Access Module
    Conditional access module
    A conditional access module is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which equips an Integrated Digital Television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware facility to view conditional access content that has been encrypted using a conditional access system...

    , a hardware facility relating to TV broadcasts
  • Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco
    Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco
    Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco or CAM, is a Mapuche organization dedicated to the revindication and recovery of former Mapuche lands. It was founded in 1998, in Tranaquepe, Chile, and is responsible for land occupation in the zones of Tirúa, Contulmo, Cañete and Temucuicui...

    , Mapuche indigenous rights organization
  • Catapult Aircraft Merchantman, see CAM ship
    CAM ship
    CAM ships were World War II-era British merchant ships used in convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available. CAM is an acronym for catapult aircraft merchantman. A CAM ship was equipped with a rocket-propelled catapult launching a single Hawker Sea Hurricane,...

  • Current Account Mortgage, a type of offset mortgage that uses a single account
  • Central American Ministries
    Central American Ministries
    International Samaritan, or IS, formerly known as Central American Ministries , is a non-profit organization headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan near the campus of The University of Michigan...

    , a Jesuit mission in Central America
  • Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo
    Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo
    Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, Caja Mediterráneo, or CAM is a savings bank in Spain. CAM is the result of integration at different stages of 29 financial institutions, the oldest of which traces its origins to 1875...

    , a Spanish savings bank.
  • Chemical Agent Monitor

Designation codes

  • CAM, ICAO airline designator for Camai Air
  • CAM, station code for the Camberwell railway station, Melbourne
    Camberwell railway station, Melbourne
    Camberwell is a railway station which serves the Belgrave, Lilydale and Alamein lines in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Camberwell, Victoria, Australia...

  • CAM, Amtrak station code for the Camden Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot, South Carolina, United States

Museums

  • Cartoon Art Museum
    Cartoon Art Museum
    The Cartoon Art Museum is a California art museum that specializes in the art of comics and cartoons. It is the only museum in the Western United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all forms of cartoon art...

    , an art museum in San Francisco, California
  • Castle Air Museum
    Castle Air Museum
    Castle Air Museum is a military aviation museum located in Atwater, California, United States adjacent to the site of the former Castle Air Force Base...

    , an air museum in Atwater, California
  • Chinese American Museum
    Chinese American Museum
    The Chinese American Museum is a museum located in Downtown Los Angeles as a part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. It is dedicated to the history and experience of Chinese Americans in the state of California, first such museum in Southern California...

    , an ethnic museum in Los Angeles
  • Cincinnati Art Museum
    Cincinnati Art Museum
    The Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies. Its collection of over 60,000 works make it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Midwest.Museum founders debated locating...

    , an art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio

Computing

  • Computer-aided manufacturing
    Computer-aided manufacturing
    Computer-aided manufacturing is the use of computer software to control machine tools and related machinery in the manufacturing of workpieces. This is not the only definition for CAM, but it is the most common; CAM may also refer to the use of a computer to assist in all operations of a...

    , techniques for employing computers in manufacturing processses
  • Conditional access module
    Conditional access module
    A conditional access module is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which equips an Integrated Digital Television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware facility to view conditional access content that has been encrypted using a conditional access system...

    , an electronic device for allowing access to scrambled television programmes
  • Content-addressable memory
    Content-addressable memory
    Content-addressable memory is a special type of computer memory used in certain very high speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory, associative storage, or associative array, although the last term is more often used for a programming data structure...

    , a type of computer memory
  • CAM Table
    CAM Table
    Content addressable memory table is a term referring to the dynamic content-addressable memory in an Ethernet switch.- Operation :A Ethernet switch's role is to copy Ethernet frames from one port to another. The presence of a CAM table is one attribute that separates a switch from a hub...

    , a system memory used to dereference Media Access Control (MAC) addresses
  • Content Assembly Mechanism
    Content Assembly Mechanism
    Content Assembly Mechanism is an XML-based standard for creating and managing information exchanges that are interoperable and deterministic descriptions of machine-processable information content flows into and out of XML structures...

    , defines how information exchanges should occur between computer systems
  • Categorical abstract machine
    Categorical abstract machine
    The categorical abstract machine is a model of computation for programs that preserves the abilities of applicative, functional, or compositional style. It is based on the techniques of applicative computing.- Overview :...

    , 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
    River Cam
    The River Cam is a tributary of the River Great Ouse in the east of England. The two rivers join to the south of Ely at Pope's Corner. The Great Ouse connects the Cam to England's canal system and to the North Sea at King's Lynn...

    , Cambridgeshire
  • River Cam (Gloucestershire)
  • River Cam (Somerset)
    River Cam (Somerset)
    The River Cam is a tributary of the River Yeo in the south of Somerset, England.The Cam rises east of Yarlington . It flows south west past North Cadbury, Sparkford, Queen Camel and West Camel, and joins the Yeo near Yeovilton ....

  • Cam Brook, Somerset
    Cam Brook, Somerset
    The Cam brook is a small river in Somerset, England.It rises near Hinton Blewitt, flows through Cameley, Temple Cloud, Camerton, Dunkerton and Combe Hay...

     a small river in Somerset, England
  • Cam River, Marlborough in New Zealand
  • Cam River / Ruataniwha
    Cam River / Ruataniwha
    The Cam River / Ruataniwha is a small river in Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand. It is a tributary of the Kaiapoi River, itself a tributary of the Waimakariri River....

     in Canterbury, New Zealand

Places

  • Cam, Gloucestershire
    Cam, Gloucestershire
    Cam is a large village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, situated in the Cotswolds. The Cotswold Way runs less than a mile from the village. It has a boundary with the town of Dursley.Cam had approximately 8,500 residents in the 2001 census...

    , a village in Gloucestershire, England
  • Cambridgeshire
    Cambridgeshire
    Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

    , which has the Chapman code "CAM"
  • Cam Mountains , An Giang Province, Vietnam

Proteins

  • Cell adhesion molecule
    Cell adhesion molecule
    Cell Adhesion Molecules are proteins located on the cell surface involved with the binding with other cells or with the extracellular matrix in the process called cell adhesion....

    , a protein located on a cell surface involved with the binding with other cells
  • Calmodulin
    Calmodulin
    Calmodulin is a calcium-binding protein expressed in all eukaryotic cells...

     (CaM), a calcium-binding protein

Miscellaneous

  • CAM ship
    CAM ship
    CAM ships were World War II-era British merchant ships used in convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available. CAM is an acronym for catapult aircraft merchantman. A CAM ship was equipped with a rocket-propelled catapult launching a single Hawker Sea Hurricane,...

    , a type of World War II merchant ship which could launch, but not recover, a fighter aircraft
  • Cam (bootleg)
    Cam (bootleg)
    A cam is a bootleg recording of a film. Unlike the more common DVD rip or screener recording methods which involve the duplication of officially distributed media, cam versions are original clandestine recordings made in movie theaters.Typically, the person filming the movie will smuggle a compact...

    , a form of motion picture copying
  • Centrifuge Accommodations Module
    Centrifuge Accommodations Module
    The Centrifuge Accommodations Module is a cancelled element of the International Space Station. Although the module was planned to contain more than the a centrifuge, the centrifuge still was considered the most important capability of the module...

    , a cancelled component of the International Space Station
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK