overhead cam (English, noun)
expansion: overhead cam (plural overhead cams)
Senses:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
wikidata: Q1163122
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: overhead cams
tags: plural