eccentric cam


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eccentric cam

[ek¦sen·trik ′kam]
(design engineering)
A cylindrical cam with the shaft displaced from the geometric center.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

eccentric cam

A cam whose center is different from the center of the shaft on which it is mounted.
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