Home > Industry/Domain > Automotive > Vehicle equipment
Vehicle equipment
Industry: Automotive
Add a new termContributors in Vehicle equipment
Vehicle equipment
rolling resistance
Automotive; Vehicle equipment
Retarding force, parallel to the direction of travel, caused by tire resistance along the ground.
scaling relations
Automotive; Vehicle equipment
Mathematical relations applied to events associated with a system at one scale to predict equivalent behavior at a different (usually larger) scale.
scuffing
Automotive; Vehicle equipment
A form of localized surface damage caused by inadequate lubrication between rubbing surfaces.
selectivity
Automotive; Vehicle equipment
Ability of a type of method, material, or instrumentation to respond to a specified substance or constituent and not to others.
smog
Automotive; Vehicle equipment
Aerosol mixture of ground-level ozone and other air pollutants produced through chemical reactions.
spark-ignition (SI) engine
Automotive; Vehicle equipment
An internal combustion engine in which the fuel mixture is ignited electrically. A spark-ignition engine runs on an Otto cycle — most gasoline engines run on a modified Otto cycle. This cycle uses a ...