Usually means: Controls engine valves' opening, closing.
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  1. camshaft: Merriam-Webster
  2. camshaft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. camshaft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. camshaft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. camshaft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Camshaft, camshaft: Wordnik
  7. camshaft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. camshaft: Wiktionary
  9. camshaft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. camshaft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. camshaft: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. camshaft: Dictionary.com
  13. Camshaft (Transformers), Camshaft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. camshaft: Rhymezone
  15. camshaft: FreeDictionary.org
  16. camshaft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. camshaft: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. camshaft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. camshaft: Encyclopedia

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  1. camshaft: Urban Dictionary

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

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