Automobile

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.

Industry: Automotive

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Properly called calliper disc brakes: a type of brake that consists of a disc that rotates at wheel speed, straddled by a calliper that can squeeze the surfaces of the disc near its periphery. Disc ...

Dive

Automotive; Automobile

The dipping of a car's nose that occurs when the brakes are applied. Dive is caused by a load transfer from the rear to the front suspension; this transfer occurs because the car's centre of gravity, ...

Dohc

Automotive; Automobile

Double Overhead Camshaft: a DOHC engine has two camshafts in each cylinder head; one camshaft operates the intake valves, the other actuates the exhaust valves.

Downforce

Automotive; Automobile

A vertical force directed downward, produced by airflow around an object: such as a car body.

Drag coefficient

Automotive; Automobile

A dimensionless measure of the aerodynamic sleekness of an object. A sleek car has a drag coefficient, or "Cd," of about 0.30; a square, flat plate's is 1.98. Also signified by Cx.

Catalytic converter

Automotive; Automobile

Often simply called a "catalyst", this is a stainless-steel canister fitted to a car's exhaust system that contains a thin layer of catalytic material spread over a large area of inert supports. The ...