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Bevel Drive Shaft: A shaft with a bevel gear at one end or both ends. It is used primarily for driving an overhead camshaft.

Line Drive: A ball hit in the air at a low projectory directly to a fielder or through the infield.

Motor Drive: Is an automatic film wind-on mechanism which can be attached to some cameras. While the shutter remains depressed the film will keep winding on after exposure.

No Drive No Five: An expression meaning that to take out the five pin on a pocket hit, the ball must drive through the deflection from the headpin to hit the five pin.

Let The Shaft Out: To make an effort to hit the ball long

Overhead Camshaft (OHC): A camshaft in an internal-combustion engine that is mounted within the cylinder heads, above the combustion chambers, and drives the valves or lifters directly instead of using pushrods.

Lens Drive System: Used in autofocus slr cameras. One type has a motor located inside the lens: in another, a motor inside the camera body turns the lens via a drive shaft.

Hair Shaft: The portion of a hair that extends above the skins surface.

Incremental Shaft Encoder: A component of a water level gauge for converting length to a shaft angle on a rotating disk. The position of the rotating disk is deter-mined by single or dual optical or magnetic sensors t . . . View Full Definition

Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE): Specifically refers to a hard disk with the disk controller integrated into it. Also refers to the ATA interface. IDE drives are characterized by a wide ribbon cable connecting the drive to . . . View Full Definition