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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
- 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
Abbreviations
- Crassulacean acid metabolism, a water-conserving metabolic process of most succulent plants
- 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
- The names Camille, Camden, or Cameron can all be shortened to Cam
- Cam, a pen name used by Canadian editorial cartoonist Cameron Cardow
- A nickname for the rapper Cam'ron
Acronyms
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Conditional Access Module, a hardware facility relating to TV-broadcasts
- Current account mortgage, a type of offset mortgage that uses a single account
- Central American Ministries, a Jesuit mission in Central America
- Central attacking midfielder, a position in Association football
- Canadian Association of Magicians
- Compagnie Aerienne du Mali
- Clube Atlético Mineiro, a popular Brazilian Football team
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, specializing in the art of comics and cartoons
- Castle Air Museum, an air museum in Atwater, California displaying restored World War II, Korean War, and Cold War era aircraft.
- Chinese American Museum, an ethnic museum in Los Angeles
- Cincinnati Art Museum, an art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio
Computing
- Common Access Method, part of SCSI specification draft describing driver architecture and API.
- Computer-aided manufacturing, computer-based software tools that assist in the manufacture of product components
- Conditional access module, an electronic device for allowing access to scrambled television programmes
- Content-addressable memory, a type of computer memory
- Content Assembly Mechanism, defines how information exchanges should occur between computer systems
- Categorical abstract machine, the machine behind Caml, and Ocaml Language
- Cellular automata machine, a computer dedicated to execution of cellular automaton processing
Rivers
- River Cam (disambiguation)
- Cam Brook, Somerset a small river in Somerset, England
Places
- Cam, Gloucestershire, a village in Gloucestershire, England
- Cambridgeshire, which has the Chapman code "CAM"
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
- Sandra Cam (born 1972), Belgian freestyle swimmer
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