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overhead cams

overhead cams is the plural of overhead cam.

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

Questions about overhead cams

What is overhead cams the plural of?
Overhead cams is the plural of overhead cam.

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