Automobile
Definition
An automobile is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor.
Analogy
Consider an automobile like your school backpack. Your backpack carries all your books (passengers) from one class (location) to another using your energy (engine).
Related terms
Internal Combustion Engine: An engine that generates motive power by the burning of gasoline, oil, or other fuel with air inside the engine, the hot gases produced being used to drive a piston or do other work as they expand.
Transmission System: A system in a motor vehicle which transmits mechanical power from the engine to the axle.
Chassis: The base frame of a car or other wheeled vehicle.
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