Cam vs. Mam — What's the Difference?

A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion. It is often a part of a rotating wheel (e.g.

One's mother

A projection on a rotating part in machinery, designed to make sliding contact with another part while rotating and impart reciprocal or variable motion to it.

A term of respectful or polite address used for any woman

A camera.

Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.

A wheel that has a projecting part and is mounted on a rotating shaft to produce variable or reciprocating motion in another part.

Mamma.

Any of various similar devices having a rotating part of variable radius that interacts with another part to exert a variable force or resistance.

A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala

A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

A Mayan language spoken by the Mam people

A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.

A ridge or mound of earth.

(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

(informal) Camera.

To go on webcam with someone.

A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

A ridge or mound of earth.

Crooked.

A river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River

A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion