(Labor)(General) 0.5 Glossary (Addtional Resources from the World Wide Web)   Glossaries of General Automotive Terms While I don't endorse any of the websites below, the glossaries that are provided at those sites can be helpful in understanding the myriad of automotive terms.     How Stuff Works         Motor Era         Cars.com         AutoZone Glossaires of Physics Terms       Light and Matter (glossary of common physics terms)         Glossary of Frequently Misused or Misunderstood Physics Terms and Concepts         About.com Glossary of Physics Terms Understanding the Terminology of Simple and Complex Machines Or I could subtitle this, "Everything You Learned in 3rd Grade, but Have Since Forgotten". A SAAB, or any automobile for that matter, is a really large pile of simple and complex machines. A timing chain is really a set of hundreds of tiny little axles, but how many folks look at that way? It's easy to forget that most things in our high tech world are still just a series of simple machines.       Ed Heads         KSU Reference