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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.
Industry: Automotive
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Positive camber
Automotive; Automobile
Wheel geometry in which a pair of wheels are angled so they are closer together at the bottom than the top.
Pop-back
Automotive; Automobile
Malfunction in which fuel mixture is ignited within the intake manifold. Noise - and sometimes a flame - pops back through the carburettor.
Polypropylene
Automotive; Automobile
Tough and durable plastic used for making impact-resisting bumper bars.
Piston displacement
Automotive; Automobile
Total volume displaced as the piston moves in the cylinder from bottom dead centre to top centre dead.
Piston ring
Automotive; Automobile
Metal ring placed in a circumferential groove in the exterior of a piston to create a gas seal between the piston and cylinder wall.
