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Automotive

Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.

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blown

Automotive; Automobile

(1) An engine equipped with a turbocharger or supercharger. (2) An engine which is ruined. Usually the piston is seized.

beater

Automotive; Automobile

(1) An old or collectible vehicle that is in drivable condition, but looks terrible inside and out, and probably is missing many original parts. Often used to describe a vehicle ...

ablation

Automotive; Automobile

(1) Any one of the processes by which snow and ice are lost from a glacier, mainly by melting and evaporation (sublimation). (2) Removal of surface layers of a meteorite and ...

banjo

Automotive; Automobile

(1) Besides being a musical instrument, this is a fitting which is shaped like a banjo. It has round end that is doughnut shaped with a tube coming out from one side. It is ...

adjustment

Automotive; Automobile

(1) changing or modifying the position or alignment of two components. (2) the distance of travel that a component has.

box

Automotive; Automobile

(1) Colloquial term for a transmission. (2) A term for an electrical or electronic device. (3) A silencer.

beefed-up

Automotive; Automobile

(1) Colloquial term for making something stronger. (2) Colloquial term for modifying or improving something so it will work faster or more efficiently. Similar to souped up.