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Automotive

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

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check ball

Automotive; Automobile

A small ball (like a ball bearing) often made of metal or plastic, found in a check valve to halt the progress of fluid in a certain direction.

bubble

Automotive; Automobile

A small blister in the finish of paint.

clutch pilot bearing

Automotive; Automobile

A small bronze bushing, or in some cases a ball bearing, placed in the end of the crankshaft or in the center of the flywheel depending on the vehicle, that is used to support the ...

charging hose

Automotive; Automobile

A small diameter hose constructed to withstand high pressures. It is connected between the air conditioning system and the manifold set.

button

Automotive; Automobile

A small disk or knob which activates something electrical when it is pressed such as a starter button.

compensating port

Automotive; Automobile

A small hole in a brake master cylinder to permit fluid to return to the reservoir.

canned motor pump

Automotive; Automobile

A glandless pump with a special type of submersible or "canned" motor, whose stator winding is insulated from the fluid pumped by a tube, the so-called can.