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overhead cam

noun

Definitions

  1. A type of cam (and camshaft) in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic)…

    A type of cam (and camshaft) in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder head and has the camshaft(s) up above the valves too.

    • This engine has an overhead cam.
    • This engine is an overhead cam model.
    • This engine is an overhead cam.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overhead cam. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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