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  2. Glossary of automotive terms - Wikipedia

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    Also gas pedal. A throttle in the form of a foot-operated pedal, or sometimes a hand-operated lever or paddle, by which the flow of fuel to the engine (and thereby the engine speed) is controlled, with depression of the pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate. admission stroke See induction stroke. aftermarket air brake 1. A type of brake in which the force that actuates the brake mechanism is ...

  3. Standardized uptake value - Wikipedia

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    3-dimensional [18 F]FDG-PET image with 3D ROI generated by a threshold based algorithm.The blue dot in the MIP image bottom right marks the maximum SUV within the ROI.. The standardized uptake value (SUV) is a nuclear medicine term, used in positron emission tomography (PET) as well as in modern calibrated single photon emission tomography (SPECT) imaging for a semiquantitative analysis. [1]

  4. Automotive acronyms and abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    PC: passenger car; RPM: Revolutions Per Minute; PS: Power steering; R-134a: Refrigerant 134a, tetrafluoroethane (C 2 H 2 F 4) R-152a: Refrigerant 152a, difluoroethane (C 2 H 4 F 2) RCTA: Rear Cross Traffic Alert; RPE: Retail price equivalent; RWD: Rear Wheel Drive; SULEV: Super ultra low emission vehicle; SUV: Sport utility vehicle; TBI ...

  5. Medical incident likely led to SUV crashing into Walmart ...

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    A driver who crashed her sport-utility vehicle into a Walmart store in suburban Detroit was likely having a health incident at the time, authorities said Saturday. The woman and four other people ...

  6. List of abbreviations used in sanitation - Wikipedia

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    ToR - Terms of reference; TSC - Total sanitation campaign in India, now called Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan - not to be confused with CLTS; TSS - Total suspended solids (in sanitary engineering) or Toxic shock syndrome (medical field) TSSM - Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing; TSU - Technical support unit

  7. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Greek πύελος (púelos), pelvis, wash basin pyelonephritis: pykno-to thicken (as the nucleus does in early stages of cell death) Greek πύκνωσις (púknōsis), thickening pyknosis: pylor-gate Greek πυλωρός (pulōrós), gate keeper; lower orifice of the stomach pyloric sphincter: pyr-fever

  8. Car wash - Wikipedia

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    A self-service car wash in Kłodzko, Poland A car wash in Warwick, UK Ex Petrol station and now hand car wash in Bradford, UK A truck wash in Savannakhet, Laos This car wash in San Bernardino, California, is an example of Googie architecture. A car wash, [1] or auto wash, is a facility used to clean the exterior, [2] and in some cases the ...

  9. Washing - Wikipedia

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    A car wash, [26] or auto wash, is a facility used to clean the exterior, [27] and in some cases the interior, of cars. Car washes can be self-service , full-service (with attendants who wash the vehicle), or fully automated (possibly connected to a filling station ).