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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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car banging

Automotive; Automobile

The act of faking a car accident in order to defraud an insurance company.

consumption

Automotive; Automobile

The act of using up an amount of fuel. Actually the fuel is joined with air and merely changed into other substances (Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, etc. and energy).

breakaway

Automotive; Automobile

The action of a wheel when it turns very rapidly and loses traction so that there is no contact with the ground. Bias-belted tires and radial tires resist the breakaway action better than a bias ply ...

casehardening

Automotive; Automobile

The action of adding carbon to the surface of a mild steel object and heat treating to produce a hard surface.

carpeting

Automotive; Automobile

The action of covering the passenger compartment floor (and sometimes the trunk floor) with a form-fitting rug or carpet.

case harden

Automotive; Automobile

The action of hardening the surface of steel.

cathodic protection

Automotive; Automobile

The action of protecting metal from electrochemical corrosion by using it as the cathode of a cell with a sacrificial anode.

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