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cam
Machine component that either rotates or reciprocates (moves back and forth) to create a prescribed motion in a contacting element (the follower). Since the shape of the contacting surface of the cam is determined by the prescribed motion and the profile of the follower, cams take various forms. Cam-follower mechanisms are particularly useful when a simple motion of one part of a machine is to be converted to a more complicated prescribed motion of another part, one that must be accurately timed with respect to the simple motion and may include periods of rest (dwells). Cams are essential elements in automatic machine tools, printing machines, sewing machines, and textile machinery.
clam
In general, any bivalve mollusk. True clams, in the strict sense, have equal shells, closed by two opposing muscles, and a powerful, muscular, burrowing foot. They usually lie buried in the sand in shallow marine waters. Clams draw in and expel water for respiration and feeding through two tubes, the siphons. Species range in size from 0.004 in. to 4 ft (0.1 mm-1.2 m) across. Many species are edible, incl. the coquina clam, geoduck, quahog, and soft-shell clam.
cramp
Painful, involuntary, sustained contraction of muscle in limbs or some internal organs. Causes may be neurological, reflex, or psychological. Common muscle cramps include swimmer's cramp from overexertion in cold water, heat cramps from loss of salt in sweat, leg cramps, and occupational (e.g., writer's) cramp. Menstrual cramps are uterine muscle contractions before or during menstruation. Cramps occur in diseases incl. parkinsonism and Huntington's chorea. Tetany is severe cramping noticed first in limb muscles.
Adamov
Russian-French playwright. He settled in Paris in 1924, and his first major work, written after suffering a nervous breakdown, was his autobiography, The Confession (1938-43). Influenced by A. Strindberg and F. Kafka, he began writing plays in 1947. Le professeur Taranne (1953) and Le ping-pong (1955) expressed the view of life's meaninglessness characteristic of the theater of the absurd. In Paolo Paoli (1957) and later plays, he abandoned absurdism for radical political theater influenced by B. Brecht. He died from a drug overdose, an apparent suicide.
Alamo
18th-cent. mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic resistance in 1836 by a small group of Texans besieged by a Mexican army during the Mexican War. The abandoned mission was occupied occasionally by Spanish troops, who named it the Alamo ("cottonwood") after the surrounding trees. At the start of the Texas war for independence in Dec. 1835, volunteers occupied the Alamo and vowed to fight to the death any attempt to recapture it. In Feb. 1836 a Mexican army of several thousand began a siege that lasted 13 days. The Texas force of about 180, led by J. Bowie and incl. D. Crockett as well as women and Mexicans, was overrun; ...
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