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rocker arm en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A valvetrain component that typically transfers the motion of a pushrod in an overhead valve internal combustion engine to the corresponding intake or exhaust valve.
    • All the rocker arms have an automatic hydraulic adjustment, which ensures at all times that no backlash is present in the valve motion. 1958 September 14, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 601:

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