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camshaft
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
camshaft
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A youngish man deals with us, taking us to the shop floor where camshafts are made.
▪ His design does away with the latter's camshafts and valves.
▪ Ivars needs help with a Hobson or a Zenith carburettor, correct camshaft timing and much more.
▪ Mods include sportier camshafts and bigger valves.
▪ The compression figures, whilst not particularly low, suggest that it may be camshaft wear.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
camshaft

camshaft \camshaft\ n. a shaft that has cams attached to it, forming part of a mechanical device.

Wiktionary
camshaft

n. A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.

WordNet
camshaft

n. has cams attached to it

Wikipedia
Camshaft

A camshaft is a shaft to which a cam is fastened or of which a cam forms an integral part.

Camshaft (Transformers)

Camshaft is the name of a fictional character in the Transformers universe. He is sometimes referred to as "Autobot Camshaft" for trademark purposes. Hasbro registered the name Camshaft for U.S. Trademark in October 2003.

Usage examples of "camshaft".

The camshaft circles around the floor until a hand reaches up to take it down and attach it to the engine block, growing increasingly eccentric now with swooshes of pipe and the plumage of fan blades.

The camshaft flies around the factory until a man unhooks it, attaches it to the engine block, growing eccentric now with fan blades, pipes, and spark plugs.

Daryl delighted in citing large, powerful four-door sedans with all the amenitiesQair conditioning, power windows, cellular phone, adjustable steering column, tape/CD/AM-FM stereo entertainment system, leather upholstery, dual overhead camshafts, tinted glass all aroundQwhile mocking me for my continued insistence on ticketing nothing larger than mopeds and bicycles.

The Stutz eight-cylinder engine featured twin overhead camshafts with four valves per cylinder.

The Stutz eight-cylinder engine featured twin overhead camshafts with four valves per cylinder.

The Stutz has an eight-cylinder five-liter engine featuring twin overhead camshafts with four valves per cylinder.

The Stutz has aneight-cylinder five-liter engine featuring twin overhead camshafts withfour valves per cylinder.

Every fourteen seconds Wierzbicki reams a bearing and Stephanides grinds a bearing and O’Malley attaches a bearing to a camshaft.

Wierzbicki reams a bearing and Stephanides grinds a bearing and O’Malley attaches a bearing to a camshaft.