Kam
adj, name, noun ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of key account manager, an account manager with overall responsibility for a customer relationship. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 Crooked, awry. not-comparable, obsolete
"[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."
- 1 Initialism of Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"Notice that a wandering set has empty intersection with the set of KAM tori […]"
Example
More examples"[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."
Etymology
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.
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