A cam is a mechanical linkage which translates motion.

Cam or CAM may also refer to:

Businesses and organizations

• Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, a Spanish savings bank
• Cam FM, University of Cambridge radio station
• CAM (record company), aka CAM Jazz
• CAM Community School District, a school district in Iowa
• Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, an indigenous Mapuche organization in Chile
• Compagnie Aerienne du Mali, now Air Mali
• Comité d'Action Musulman, a former political party in Mauritius

People

• Cam (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
• Cam'ron (born 1976), American rapper, formerly known as Killa Cam
• Cam (singer) (born 1984), American country singer Camaron Marvel Ochs
• Charles Augustus Magnussen, fictional character from Sherlock, owning CAM News
• Cameron "Cam" Watanabe, a character in Power Rangers: Ninja Storm known as the Green Samurai Ranger

Places

• Çam, Akyurt, Ankara Province, Turkey, a neighborhood of the District of Akyurt
• Cam, Gloucestershire, a village and civil parish in England
• Cam Loch, Scotland
• Cam Mountains, An Giang Province, Vietnam
• Cam River (disambiguation)
• Cam Brook a small river in Somerset, England

In science and technology

• Camera or webcam
• Camshaft, a shaft with a cam

In computing

• CAM Table, to find where to forward a data packet
• Categorical abstract machine in applicative computing
• Computer-aided manufacturing
• Computer-aided mural, by digital printing
• Conditional-access module, to access scrambled TV programs
• Content-addressable memory
• Content Assembly Mechanism, for information exchange

In biology

• Calmodulin (CaM), a calcium-binding protein
• Cell adhesion molecule, proteins on cell surfaces
• Chorioallantoic membrane, in developing eggs
• Crassulacean acid metabolism, a plant carbon-fixing pathway

Other uses

• Camelopardalis, a constellation, abbreviated Cam
• Centrifuge Accommodations Module of the International Space Station (canceled)
• Cockpit Area Microphone, part of an aircraft's Cockpit Voice Recorder

Museums

• Cartoon Art Museum, an art museum in San Francisco, California, US
• Castle Air Museum, an air museum in Atwater, California, US
• Chinese American Museum, an ethnic museum in Los Angeles, US
• Cincinnati Art Museum, an art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, US
• Chinese Association of Museums, Taiwan

In sport and recreation

• CAM the Ram, mascot of the athletic teams of Colorado State University
• CAM Timișoara, a former football club (1911–1949) based in Timişoara, Romania
• Clube Atlético Mineiro, a popular Brazilian football team
• Cam ECS-12, a 2014 Nerf Blaster released under the N-Strike Elite series
• In climbing, a spring-loaded camming device

Military

• CAM ship (Catapult Aircraft Merchantman), World War II
• Corpo d'Armata Motocorazzato, an Italian Army corps, World War II

Codes

• Camberley railway station, England, station code
• Camberwell railway station, Melbourne, Australia, station code
• Cambridgeshire, England, Chapman code
• Camden Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot, South Carolina, US, Amtrak station code
• Camai Air a US airline, ICAO designator (see Airline codes-C)

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Cam (1996)
• Tropical Storm Cam (1999)
• Cam (bootleg), motion picture recording
• Common area maintenance charges, a leasing term
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Cam (film), a 2018 American horror-thriller film

See also

• Kam (disambiguation)
• Çam (disambiguation)