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What is a camshaft?

What is a camshaft? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
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An infinitely variable camshaft timing device has a control valve located in the rotor.
The electronic throttle inputs are sent to a stepper motor which controls an eccentric shaft positioned next to the intake camshaft.
Since the advent of common rail fuel injection, the mechanical camshaft no longer plays a role in fuel management.
The 16-valve has twin, chain-driven, overhead camshafts and hydraulic tappets, while the 8-valve format uses a single camshaft.
But unlike a living brain that controls heart rate and respiration, a conventional camshaft can't alter the valve events.
The mammoth engine's double overhead camshaft heads and 64 valves are fed by a quartet of turbochargers.

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