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Automotive
Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.
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Jim Clark
Automotive; Automobile
Winner of 3 Formula One Championships, 25 Grand Prix races and of the 1965 Indianapolis 500
cleat
Automotive; Automobile
Clips at intervals on the horizontal stiffeners of hatch coamings to secure the hatch covers.
clutch semi-centrifugal release fingers
Automotive; Automobile
Clutch release fingers that have a weight attached to them so that at high rpm the release fingers place additional pressure on the clutch pressure plate.
clutch explosion
Automotive; Automobile
Clutches have literally flown apart (exploded) when subjected to high rpm, a scatter shield is used on competition cars to protect the driver and spectators from flying parts in ...
compression ignition
Automotive; Automobile
Combustion of a fuel-air mixture without spark. In the diesel engine, air is drawn into the cylinder and compressed to a temperature sufficiently high that fuel oil injected at ...
coil binding
Automotive; Automobile
Compressing a valve spring to the point at which each coil touches the adjacent coil.
carboned up
Automotive; Automobile
Covered with a thick deposit of carbon. In Britain it is called "coked up"
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