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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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carbon tracking
Automotive; Automobile
A trace of carbon found inside the distributor cap which leads away some electricity, thus causing the engine to misfire.
breaker-triggered transistorized ignition
Automotive; Automobile
A transistorized ignition system whose distributor is the same as that of a coil ignition system, but whose contact breaker switches only the control current of the transistor, not the primary ...
close-ratio gearbox
Automotive; Automobile
A transmission in which there is very little difference between one gear ratio and the next. This kind of transmission makes it easy for fast shifting.
change-speed gearbox
Automotive; Automobile
A transmission which houses a set of gears which move into various configurations of engagement in order to produce different output ratios.
breasthook
Automotive; Automobile
A triangular plate bracket joining port and starboard side stringers at the stem.
