Meanings
kam1
- not comparableobsoleteCrooked, awry.
[Agrippa] Mene[nius Lanatus]. […] And what is left, to looſe it by his Countrey, / Were to vs all that doo’t, and ſuffer it / A brand to th’end a’th World. / [Lucius] Sicin[ius Vellutus]. This is cleane kamme. / [Junius] Brut[us]. Meerely awry: / When he did loue his Country, it honour’d him.
c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 17, column 1
KAM2
plural KAMs
- abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of key account manager, an account manager with overall responsibility for a customer relationship.
- abbreviationinitialismmathematicsInitialism of Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem.
Notice that a wandering set has empty intersection with the set of KAM tori […]
2019, Laurent Lazzarini, Jean-Pierre Marco, David Sauzin, Measure and Capacity of Wandering Domains in Gevrey Near-integrable Exact Symplectic Systems, page 19
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Celtic*kambos
- Proto-Brythonic*kam
- Old Welshcam
- Middle Welshcam
- Welshcam“bent, crooked, distorted”
- Englishkam
From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.
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kam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kam
“kam.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kam. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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