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cams

cams is the plural of cam.

Meaning of cam

Noun (1)

cam (plural cams)

  1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
    1. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A ridge or mound of earth.
    • Cum doun t' cam' soid1861, Dean Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  3. A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

Noun (2)

cam (plural cams)

  1. (informal) Camera.
  2. (piracy) A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.

See all 11 meanings of cam

Noun capitalized: CAMs

CAMs

  1. (plural) plural of CAM

Proper noun capitalized: Cams

Cams

  1. (plural) plural of Cam.

Phrases with cams

Words that rhyme with cams

Questions about cams

What is cams the plural of?
Cams is the plural of cam.
What part of speech is cams?
Cams can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near cams in the dictionary

  1. camrips
  2. Camron
  3. Camrose
  4. Camrose County
  5. Camryn
  6. cams
  7. cams out
  8. Cams Wharf
  9. camsal
  10. camsellite
  11. camshaft

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cams (page history and authors); CAMs (page history and authors); Cams (page history and authors); cam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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