Difference between revisions of "Camibalistics"
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* '''cam''': in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion | * '''cam''': in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion | ||
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* '''ballistics''': the science of the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles | * '''ballistics''': the science of the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles | ||
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* '''Cambria''' → Cumbria, derivative of ''Welsh'' Cymru, Wales. | * '''Cambria''' → Cumbria, derivative of ''Welsh'' Cymru, Wales. | ||
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Revision as of 17:28, 26 July 2006
- cam: in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion
- the River Cam in Cambridge, England
- ballistics: the science of the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles
- cannibal
- Ulysses 077.33-34: "Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse why the cannibals cotton to it."
- cannon balls
- French baliste: a type of siege engine → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
- ballista: an early form of crossbow
- Japanese kami: divine
- In northern dialect, a cam is a ridge or mound, such as those which divide plots of land and on which are planted hedges. From Scandinavian kame, "comb", "crest", "serrated ridge". May be a reference to Irish Mesolithic or Neolithic tomb- and mound-building cultures.
- Welsh cam: crooked, bent, awry, wrong, by extension "unorthodox"
- Cambria → Cumbria, derivative of Welsh Cymru, Wales.
