Camshaft

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An engine shaft fitted with a cam or cams.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a shaft that has cams attached to it, forming part of a mechanical device.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A shaft with cams or wipers used to lift the pestles of stamping-mills.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. has cams attached to it
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rotating shaft    shaft   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
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