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Automotive

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

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device

Automotive; Automobile

A piece of equipment or a mechanism designed for a specific purpose or function.

drill bit

Automotive; Automobile

A piece of rod with spiral recesses cut in it and a hardened steel tip, made in different sizes for drilling different sized holes, and inserted in the chuck of a drill.

drop forging

Automotive; Automobile

A piece of steel shaped between dies while hot.

dowel pin

Automotive; Automobile

A pin (steel or wood), passed through or partly through, two parts to provide proper alignment and to prevent movement between them. Sometimes called "locating pin."

dowel

Automotive; Automobile

A pin projecting from one of two mating surfaces which fits into a correspondng hole in the other thus lining up the two pieces accurately during assembly.

distributor pipe

Automotive; Automobile

A pipe or tube through which the fuel travels from the fuel distributor to the injection nozzle.

deflector piston

Automotive; Automobile

A piston design which had a crown designed to direct the incoming fresh mixture upwards to expel the burnt exhaust gas from the cylinder. This design is no longer used today.