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Automotive
Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.
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car banging
Automotive; Automobile
The act of faking a car accident in order to defraud an insurance company.
consumption
Automotive; Automobile
The act of using up an amount of fuel. Actually the fuel is joined with air and merely changed into other substances (Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, etc. and energy).
breakaway
Automotive; Automobile
The action of a wheel when it turns very rapidly and loses traction so that there is no contact with the ground. Bias-belted tires and radial tires resist the breakaway action ...
casehardening
Automotive; Automobile
The action of adding carbon to the surface of a mild steel object and heat treating to produce a hard surface.
carpeting
Automotive; Automobile
The action of covering the passenger compartment floor (and sometimes the trunk floor) with a form-fitting rug or carpet.
cathodic protection
Automotive; Automobile
The action of protecting metal from electrochemical corrosion by using it as the cathode of a cell with a sacrificial anode.
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- Automobile (151863)
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