Definition of Camshafts

1. Noun. (plural of camshaft) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Camshafts

1. camshaft [n] - See also: camshaft

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camshafts

campylobacter coli
campylobacter enteritis
campylobacter foetus
campylobacter infections
campylobacter jejuni
campylobacteria
campylobacteriosis
campylobacterium
campylobacterosis
campylobacters
campylotropous
campylotropous ovule
cams
camshaft
camshafts (current term)
camsho
camshoch
camstairy
camstane
camstanes
camstone
camstones
camurati-engelmann disease
camuses
camwood
camwoods
camylofine

Literary usage of Camshafts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"... Methods Reviewed—Methods of Driving Cam Shaft—Silent Chain Drive—New Valve Operating Systems—Overhead camshafts—Positively Closed Valves—Valves Operated ..."

2. Motor Vehicle Engineering: Engines (for Automobiles, Trucks and Tractors) by Ethelbert Favary (1919)
"... CHAPTER VII VALVE TIMING, CAMS, AND camshafts Correct valve timing is of very great importance, since too early or ..."

3. Motor Vehicle Engineering; Engines (for Automobiles, Trucks, and Tractors) by Ethelbert Favary (1920)
"CHAPTER VII VALVE TIMING, CAMS, AND camshafts Correct valve timing is of very great importance, since too early or too late an opening or closing of either ..."

4. The Model T Ford Car: Its Construction, Operation and Repair; a Complete by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1915)
"... Connecting Rod—Testing Bearing Parallelism—camshafts and Timing Gears—How to Time Valves in Ford Engines—Repairing Ford Magneto—Packings and Gaskets for ..."

5. The Model T Ford Car, Truck and Conversion Sets, Also Genuine Ford Farm by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"... Connecting Rod—Testing Bearing Parallelism—camshafts and Timing Gears—How to Time Valves in Ford Engines—Repairing Ford Magneto—Packings and Gaskets for ..."

6. Textbook of Aero Engines by E H Sherbondy, G. Douglas Wardrop (1920)
"camshafts The hollow camshafts each run in three plain phosphor bronze bearings, and are arranged inside the top half of the crank chamber. ..."

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