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• GM High Feature engine
  High Feature V6 engines are produced at Fisherman's Bend in [[Port Melbourne]], [[Australia]], [[St. Catharines]] in [[Canada]], and [[Flint E ...ater power, 8% greater torque, and 3% better fuel economy than the current port-injected version. Although GM did not give specific output figures, a 15% i
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• Catanzaro
  ...pplied merchants that came from all over [[Europe]] to buy the silk in the port of [[Reggio Calabria]] soon before [[Pentecost]] day.
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• Non-synchronous transmission
  ...g ability]]</ref> The captain orders full reverse of the [[Port (nautical)|port]] propeller. The engineer hesitates because he has to time the engine in or
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• Exhaust pipe
  ...as and thus lessens the back-pressure at the engine's cylinders' [[exhaust port]]s and thus helps the cylinders to empty quicker. ...bends and folds calculated to make the paths from each cylinder's exhaust port to the common outlet all equal length, and joined at narrow angles to encou
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• Combustion chamber
  ...t rather than elongated chamber. The intake [[cylinder head porting|valve/port]] is usually placed to give the mixture a pronounced "swirl" (the term is p
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• Panamerican Highway
  ...cross the [[Gulf of Urabá]] from [[Turbo, Colombia]], to a new Panamanian port (possibly Carreto) connected to a Caribbean coast extension of the highway.
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• Boat
  ...boat is called the stern. The right side is starboard and the left side is port.
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• Sleeve valve
  ...linder ports in upper part of the circle. The advantage is that very large port openings can be arranged that increase the [[volumetric efficiency]] of the ...d wherever is best, the valve is not being continually "hammered" into the port leading to rapid wear, and the exhaust's heat is spread evenly around the c
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• Ship
  ...our letters. Another incorporates the navigation light: ''Is there any red port left?'')
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• Overhead cam
  ...nother performance advantage is gained as a result of the better optimized port configurations made possible with overhead camshaft designs. With no intru
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• Forced induction
  ...nduction. It's simply an oxidizer that is injected either directly (direct port) or by a single fogger...with fuel(wet nitrous system) or without fuel(dry
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• Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  ...ouraged an extraordinary economic flourishing, making Trieste the empire’s port. The fortunate outcome of the war of independence brought Friuli alone into ...custom regulations ensure exclusive financial conditions to operators. The Port of Trieste is today the most important centre worldwide for the trade of co
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• Genoa
  [[Image:Genova-Porto antico-IMG 0299.JPG|thumb|250px|The Ancient Port of Genoa.]] ...Genova-Bigo del porto antico.JPG|thumb|250px|The big "bigo" in the ancient port.]]
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• Pushrod
  ...well as much greater freedom of component placement and intake and exhaust port geometry. Most modern pushrod engines have two valves per cylinder, while m
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• Pisa
  ...mperor [[Caesar Augustus|Augustus]] fortified the colony into an important port and changed the name in ''Colonia Iulia obsequens''. From 313 it became the ...rests were prevailing. Pisa began in this way its rise to the role of main port of the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea and became the main trading centre between Tusc
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• Fuel injection
  ...gned for the next phase of fuel injection's evolution, which is individual port injection, commonly known as EFI. TBI was used briefly on passenger cars du ===Central port injection (CPI)===
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• Testi
  ...Trail King, the first off-road motorcycle from only 50 cc, provided even a port fishing rods! Added to this is also the Trail, a tuttoterreno with a gearbo
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• Piston ring
  ...teel, and are coated or treated to enhance the wear resistance. Two-stroke port design is critical to ring life.<!--the following sentence is confusing and
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• Tuscany
  ...lance between these communes were ensured by the assets they held; Pisa, a port; Siena, banking; and Lucca, banking and silk. By the [[renaissance]], howev
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• Cagliari
  ...ello]], Cagliari comprised the districts of [[Marina]] (which included the port), [[Stampace]] and [[Villanova]]. Marina and Stampace were guarded by [[wal ...decoration]]: an example is the [[white marble]] [[City Hall]] near the [[port]]. Ottone Bacaredda is also famous for the [[violent]] repression of one of
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