Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overhead cam

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables: over-head- -cam
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

overhead cams (plural)

Derived Forms

DOHC OHC SOHC

Frequently Paired Words

overhead valve OHV side valve flathead L-head

Synonyms

OHC

Questions

What does overhead cam mean?: 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.

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