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

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bridge bolts

Automotive; Automobile

High-strength bolts used to fasten together the halves of a split brake caliper.

Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

Automotive; Automobile

Implemented in January 1989 to eliminate all tariffs on U.S. and Canadian goods by January 1998 and to reduce or eliminate many non-tariff barriers.

choke valve

Automotive; Automobile

In a carburetor, it is the choke butterfly.

clamping load

Automotive; Automobile

In a clutch, the amount of pressure on the plates.

compressor pressure ratio

Automotive; Automobile

In a turbocharger system, the ratio between the absolute pressure at the compressor outlet and the compressor inlet.

compressor ratio

Automotive; Automobile

In a turbocharger system, the ratio between the volume in the cylinder when the piston is at the bottom of its stroke and the volume in the cylinder when the piston is at the top ...

charge losses

Automotive; Automobile

In a two-stroke engine, the exhaust gases are expelled out the exhaust port and the fresh charge is brought in through the transfer port. Sometimes some of the fresh charge is ...