camshaft
/ˈkæmʃæft/
camshaft noun: a shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
Noun
camshaft (plural camshafts)
- A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
camshaft meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic
camshaft in Tamil
- நெம்புருள் தண்டு, இயக்கவழங்கித்தண்டு
camshaft in Kannada
- ಉಬ್ಬುಗುಣಿ
camshaft in Tagalog
- a shaft fitted with cams
- tandos-umbok
camshaft in Arabic
- a shaft fitted with cams
- عَمُود الحَدَبَات ʕamūd al-ḥadabāt
More languagesFewer languages
- camshaft in Indonesian
- poros bubungan
- camshaft in Vietnamese
- trục cam
Forms of camshaft
| plural | camshafts |
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Origin of camshaft
From cam + shaft.
Questions about camshaft
- What does camshaft mean?
- Camshaft means a shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
- What is camshaft in Tamil?
- Camshaft in Tamil is நெம்புருள் தண்டு, இயக்கவழங்கித்தண்டு. See Camshaft meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is camshaft?
- Camshaft is a noun.
- How do you pronounce camshaft?
- Camshaft is pronounced /ˈkæmʃæft/.
- What is the plural of camshaft?
- The plural of camshaft is camshafts.
Words near camshaft in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: camshaft (page history and authors); camshaft (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); camshaft (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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