KAM

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kam¹

Where it comes from

From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.

adjective

  1. not comparable, obsolete Crooked, awry. [Agrippa] Mene[nius Lanatus]. […] And what is left, to looſe it by his Countrey, / Were to vs all that doo’t, and ſuffer it / A brand to th’end a’th World. / [Lucius] Sicin[ius Vellutus]. This is cleane kamme. / [Junius] Brut[us]. Meerely awry: / When he did loue his Country, it honour’d him.

KAM²

noun KAMs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of key account manager, an account manager with overall responsibility for a customer relationship.key account manager

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem.Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem Notice that a wandering set has empty intersection with the set of KAM tori […]

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