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Automotive

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

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capping

Automotive; Automobile

(1) Installing a new tread on a tire carcass. (2) Door molding or capping.

cage

Automotive; Automobile

(1) On a front derailleur of a bicycle, it is a pair of parallel plates that push the chain from side to side; on a rear derailleur, it is a set of plates in which pulleys are ...

component

Automotive; Automobile

(1) One of the parts that make up the whole system or device, as in The brake pad is a component of the brake system. (2) A raw material, ingredient, part or subassembly that goes ...

checking

Automotive; Automobile

(1) Short, very fine crack lines that appear in the paint film. (2) Small cracks in the surface of rubber (e.g., tires) caused by aging and oxidation.

cable activated

Automotive; Automobile

A device which is controlled by a cable. As a lever or pedal is engaged, the device is correspondingly moved. The longer the cable the less efficient is the system. Cables tend to ...

compression tester

Automotive; Automobile

A device which is screwed or pushed into the spark plug hole so that when the engine is turned over, it measures the amount of compression in that cylinder.