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Automotive
Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.
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buff
Automotive; Automobile
As a verb it means to polish. As a noun it indicates an expert in a field or a person greatly interested in the field as in Jim is a car buff.
calibrate
Automotive; Automobile
As applied to test instruments it is the procedure of adjusting the dial needle to the correct zero or load setting.
choke index
Automotive; Automobile
Automatic chokes have index marks. The factory setting closes the choke when the bimetal is about 70° F. If you want less or more choke at this temperature, move the choke index ...
buckled plates
Automotive; Automobile
Battery plates that have been bent or warped out of a flat plane.
cant beam
Automotive; Automobile
Beams supporting the deck plating in the overhanging portion of the stern.
BTDC
Automotive; Automobile
Before top dead center. Spark occurs on the compression stroke, before the piston reaches top dead center.
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