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rocker arm en · NOUN
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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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