Term: hydraulic brake: brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: meiosis: (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: basal ganglion: any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: street: the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: specific: a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: pterocnemia: a genus of birds of the family Rheidae
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: cargo cult: (Melanesia) the followers of one of several millenarian cults that believe salvation will come in the form of wealth (`cargo') brought by westerners; some ascribe divine attributes to westerners on first contact (especially to missionaries)
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: western white pine: tall pine of western North America with stout blue-green needles; bark is grey-brown with rectangular plates when mature
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: thrombocytosis: increase in the number of platelets in the blood which tends to cause clots to form; associated with many neoplasms and chronic infections and other diseases
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: boomerang: a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: resolution: finding a solution to a problem