CAMS

  

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CAMS

"CAMS" is a plural of: cam.


Specialty Definition: CAMS

DomainDefinition

Census

(Commerce Administrative Management System) A modern, administrative system procured for all agencies within the Department of Commerce, that supports the core financial system (CFS), personnel and payroll, purchasing, contracts, travel and transportation, real and personal property, inventory, grants, loans, and revenue requirements of each Commerce agency. Portions of the system are in the procurement process as of July 1994 and major modules of the system are planned to be operational at Census by October 1996. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CAMS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CAMS

EnglishCommon Address Management SystemN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CAMS

English words defined with "CAMS": camshaft. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CAMS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Engine Builder's Handbook: Inspection Machine Reconditioning Valvetrain Assembly Blueprinting Degreeing Cams Tools Engine Assembly (reference)

  • Making Wooden Mechanical Models: 15 Designs With Visible Wheels, Cranks, Pistons, Cogs, and Cams (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CAMS

"CAMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "CAMS" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)89.47%6840,606
Noun (proper)10.53%8124,375
                    Total100.00%76N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CAMS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cams.com cupid

3

cams.net umts

2

cams.com umts

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CAMS

Derivations

Words beginning with "CAMS": camshaft, camshafts. (additional references)

Words ending with "CAMS": minicams, scams. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CAMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acmh, caam, caama, Cacm, cacs, Cahm, cais, cama, camb, camc, cames, Camesi, camest, camg, Camisi, camma, camo, camos, Camr, camy, canso, cas, casm, Casma, caum, caus, cbm, cem, Cemc, cfm, cfms, cgms, chams, cians, Cifmd, cim, cimes, cims, cism, cma, Cmaj, cmt, cmw, comms, coms, cosm, csma, cums, cwm, cwms, Kamsky, kems, Ncams. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CAMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: macs, scam.

Words within the letters "a-c-m-s"

-1 letter: cam, mac, mas, sac.

-2 letters: am, as, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-m-s"
 

+1 letter: acmes, calms, camas, cames, camps, chams, chasm, clams, comas, crams, cymas, maces, machs, macks, marcs, micas, musca, scamp, scams, scram, smack, sumac.

 

+2 letters: amices, amicus, amucks, camass, camels, cameos, camisa, camise, campos, campus, caroms, champs, charms, chasms, chasmy, chiasm, claims, clamps, commas, cramps, creams, cymars, macaws, macers, maches, machos, macles, macons, macros, magics, manics, mascon, mascot, mastic, meccas, mescal, misact, mochas, mosaic, mucosa, muscae, muscat, racism, sachem, sacrum, samech, scampi, scamps, schema, scrams, scream, smacks, socman, sumach, sumacs, umiacs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CAMS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 4D 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    --    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01001101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#77 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004D 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37354753

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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