Difference between cam and octothorn

cam

Definitions

noun

  1. a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

Examples

When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.

This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.

In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma.

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