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Automobile
Of or relating to any vehicle, usually designed to carry passengers, that operates on ordinary roads and typically has four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.
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braking effort
Automotive; Automobile
The amount of strength needed by the operator to bring a vehicle to a stop or the amount of resistance in the brake system.
braking force
Automotive; Automobile
The amount of strength needed by the operator to bring a vehicle to a stop or the amount of resistance in the brake system.
bevel
Automotive; Automobile
The angle that one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles.
bearing surface
Automotive; Automobile
The area of the bearing that is in actual contact with the shaft or other supporting member.
absolute configuration
Automotive; Automobile
The arrangement of groups about an asymmetric atom, especially a tetrahedrally bonded atom with four different substituents.
brake mean effective pressure (BMEP)
Automotive; Automobile
The average pressure in the cylinders of an engine divided by its mechanical efficiency, i.e., the ratio of the power actually delivered at an output shaft to the power developed in the cylinders. It ...
