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Automobile
Of or relating to any vehicle, usually designed to carry passengers, that operates on ordinary roads and typically has four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.
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abscissa
Automotive; Automobile
For rectilineal axes of coordinates, the distance of a point from the axis of ordinates measured in a direction parallel to the axis of abscissae, which is usually horizontal. The sign convention is ...
aftermarket part
Automotive; Automobile
Goods not for use as original equipment in the production of light-duty vehicles or heavy-duty vehicles, i.e., products and services used in the repair and maintenance of these vehicles.
Abney level
Automotive; Automobile
Hand-held instrument in which angles of steep sights are measured while simultaneously viewing a spirit-level bubble.
active material
Automotive; Automobile
In a storage battery, peroxide of lead (brown) in positive plates and metallic lead (gray) in negative plates upon which sulphuric acid acts.
bottom tank
Automotive; Automobile
In a thermosyphon water-cooling system, this is the bottom radiator tank.
blowdown period
Automotive; Automobile
In a two-stroke engine, it is the time between the exhaust port opening and the transfer port opening which should be sufficiently long enough to allow time for the cylinder pressure to drop below ...
Ackermann axle
Automotive; Automobile
In a vehicle with Ackermann steering (at the front of the vehicle), it is a non-rotating axle that is steerable and has two pivot points (one on each end of the axle) with vertical kingpins.
