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OHC

OHC is the initialism of overhead cam.

OHC is the initialism of ocean heat content.

OHC is the initialism of outer hair cell.

OHC is the initialism of organizational health center.

OHC is the initialism of Order of the Holy Cross.

Meaning of overhead cam

Noun

overhead cam (plural overhead cams)

  1. A type of cam (and camshaft) in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder head and has the camshaft(s) up above the valves too.
    • This engine has an overhead cam.
    Synonyms:
    OHC

Forms of OHC

pluralOHCs

Questions about OHC

What is OHC the initialism of?
OHC is the initialism of overhead cam.

Words near OHC in the dictionary

  1. Ohashi
  2. Ohashis
  3. Ohau
  4. Ohayon
  5. OHB
  6. OHC
  7. ohchinolide
  8. OHCHR
  9. OHCs
  10. OHD
  11. ohed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OHC (page history and authors); overhead 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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