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A cam is a mechanical linkage which translates motion.

Cam may also refer to:

• River Cam, a river in Cambridgeshire, England
• Cam Brook, Somerset a small river in Somerset, England
• Cam, Gloucestershire, a village in Gloucestershire, England
• Webcam or cam, as an abbreviation for camera
• Cam (bootleg), a form of motion picture copying
• Calmodulin, a well-known protein, abbreviated "CaM"
• Camelopardalis, standard astronomical abbreviation
• Camarilla (fan club), as slang for the literary fanclub
• Spring-loaded camming device a type of rock climbing protection equipment
• Short for the names Camille, Camden, or Cameron
• (As a verb) To manipulate a remote viewpoint or "virtual camera" in computer games or virtual worlds.

CAM may stand for:

• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Central American Ministries, a small Jesuit mission in Ann Arbor, Michigan that serves the poor in Central America
• Central Attacking Midfielder, a position in football (soccer)
• Canadian Association of Magicians
• Cambridgeshire, which has the Chapman code "CAM"
• CAM ship, a type of World War II merchant ship which could launch, but not recover, a fighter aircraft
• Cell adhesion molecule, a protein located on a cell surface involved with the binding with other cells
• Christ's Ambassador Mission, an evangelical missionary organization
• Complementary and alternative medicine, practices used in place of or along with conventional medical treatments
• Common Area Maintenance, upkeep costs of areas designated for the use and benefit of all tenants in multi-tenant commercial buildings that are passed on to the tenant
• Conditional Access Module equips a DVB television to view content that has been encrypted
• Controlled Ankle Motion walker, a foot orthosis used during recover from a leg or foot injury
• Crassulacean acid metabolism, a water-conserving metabolic process of most succulent plants
• Offset mortgage, called a current account mortgage (CAM) when a single account is used for all transactions
• "CAM", the pen name used by Canadian editorial cartoonist Cameron Cardow
• Camden Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot, South Carolina, United States; Amtrak station code CAM
• CAM is the ICAO airline designator for Camai-Air, United States
• CAM is the OASIS XML processing standard abbreviation for Content Assembly Mechanism, United States
• CAM equipment means use of Commercial, Avionics, Military units for spacecraft design for non-critical functions to reduce costs.
• chorioallantroic membrane assay

In museums:

• Cartoon Art Museum, an art museum in San Francisco, California, specializing in the art of comics and cartoons
• Chinese American Museum, an ethnic museum in Los Angeles
• Cincinnati Art Museum, an art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio

In computing:

• Computer-aided manufacturing, computer-based software tools that assist in the manufacture of product components
• Conditional access module, an electronic device for allowing access to scrambled television programmes
• Content-addressable memory, a special type of computer memory (most often referred to as CAM)
• Catagorical Abstract Machine, the machine behind CAML, and Ocaml Language
• Cellular automata machine, a special computer dedicated to perform rapid execution of cellular automaton
• Common access method, a software interface protocol used to control SCSI devices, which is similar to ASPI
• Computer-aided mapping, an early digital mapping tool

In fiction:

• Compressed Antimatter, a weapon used in Iain M. Banks's Culture novels.

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