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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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Brinell hardness
Automotive; Automobile
A test of a metal's hardness by hydraulically pressing a hard ball into the metal.
contraction
Automotive; Automobile
A thermal action where the size (mass or dimension) of an object is reduced when cooled; the opposite of expansion.
cable lock
Automotive; Automobile
A thick cable with a lock at one end and which can be wrapped around a bicycle frame and a post to protect the bike from being stolen.
chisel
Automotive; Automobile
A thick pencil shaped tool with a sharp flat end like a blade screwdriver. When you hit the blunt end with a hammer, it forces the blade end into metal to mark it or even cut through it.
buttress
Automotive; Automobile
A thick rubber reinforcement in the shoulder of a tire. It provides support at the edge of the tread, limits shoulder area flexing, and protects the shoulder of off-road tires. See fender ...
carbon pin
Automotive; Automobile
A thin cylinder of carbon located in the distributor cap to transfer high tension electricity from the coil to the rotor to the high tension leads going to the spark plugs.
