Definition of carburetor
:a mechanical apparatus for premixing vaporized fuel and air in proper proportions and supplying the mixture to an internal combustion engine
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Based on the Triumph Tiger T11, the T120 shared the same 649cc parallel-twin engine as well as the Tiger's optional twin 13/16-inch AMAL Monobloc carburetors and high-performance inlet camshaft.
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The SOHC 1.5-liter 12-valver, equipped with a three-barrel carburetor, wound out a whopping 52 horsepower at 5000 rpm.
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The thyroid gland acts as a kind of carburetor in the body, adjusting the speed of the body’s metabolism.
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Still others explore the cosmic enigmas of carburetors and burned-out Chevrolets—or maybe that just happens in Bruce Springsteen songs.
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Fuel injection replaced carburetors and silicon chips began taking over ever more control of the engine, brakes and transmission.
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More commonly, if less dramatically, the handy among us changed our own oil, tweaked our own carburetors and replaced our own spark plugs.
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Carburetors that mixed fuel with air disappeared from assembly lines long ago.
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Gone are the days when the portly guy who can fix a carburetor is quick or fit enough to carry a tire or operate a jack.
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First Known Use of carburetor
1896
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