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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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The assembly is commonly mounted in the distributor or on the end of the crank or camshaft.
The electronic throttle inputs are sent to a stepper motor which controls an eccentric shaft positioned next to the intake camshaft.
By placing a cam phasing system on the camshaft, a pushrod engine can be tuned to take much higher levels of exhaust gas recirculation.
The mammoth engine's double overhead camshaft heads and 64 valves are fed by a quartet of turbochargers.
But unlike a living brain that controls heart rate and respiration, a conventional camshaft can't alter the valve events.
The 16-valve has twin, chain-driven, overhead camshafts and hydraulic tappets, while the 8-valve format uses a single camshaft.

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