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Automotive
Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.
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acrylic resin
Automotive; Automobile
A thermoplastic synthetic polymer made by polymerizing an acrylic derivative such as acrylonitrile, acrylic acid, ethyl acrylate, and methacrylate. It is used for adhesives, ...
adjusting shim
Automotive; Automobile
A thin washer or plate which reduces or increases the clearance between two components (depending upon where they are placed). While some valves are adjusted by screws on the ...
bias ply tire
Automotive; Automobile
A tire having two or more carcass plies arranged in a criss-cross manner and diagonally to the beads and travels approximately 1/3 the distance around the circumference before ...
bald tire
Automotive; Automobile
A tire on which the tread is all worn away. A slick also has no tread, but this is done deliberately for racing purposes.
belted bias tire
Automotive; Automobile
A tire which uses both cross-ply and radial-ply patterns with added belts (such as used on radial-ply tires) on diagonal body plies (as in cross-ply tires). As a result the tire ...
blemish
Automotive; Automobile
A tire with a slight imperfection in appearance that will not affect tire life or safety. Also called a "blem."
belted tire
Automotive; Automobile
A tire with a stabilizing belt of two or more plies of steel, fiberglass, etc., running circumferentially around the tire between the carcass and the tread rubber. The carcass can ...
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