*Idler pinion.* A small gear, usually placed so it may be
moved to be in contact with one or more
gears, but is not directly connected up
in the line of the gearing.
*Ignitable.* The term applied to substances which can
be brought to the point of burning or
exploding.
*Immaterial.* Not important.
*Imparted.* Given to something else; transferred over.
*Impregnated.* To infuse or saturate with another
substance.
*Impalpable.* Exceedingly fine.
*Impulses.* An action which is irregular or at
certain periods.
*Impediment.* Something which is in the way.
*Impact.* A striking against; a force which
contacts with another.
*Incline.* A declivity; a slope.
*Induction coil.* A core with two windings thereon, one of
coarse and one of fine wire, so as to
change a current from a low voltage
to a high voltage, and from a high
amperage to a correspondingly low
amperage.
*Ingredient.* The element in a compound.
*Inductor.* Any part of an electrical apparatus which
acts on another by induction.
*Inflation.* The stimulation or the arousing to
unnatural action. The enlarging of a
substance.
*Inflammable.* Any substance which will burn is called
inflammable.
*Intervening.* Between; intermediate certain things, or
parts.
*Integral.* A part of; different parts of a machine
which are of the same substance.
*Intersection.* To divide at a certain point. The
crossing point of one line over another.
*Interrupter.* A piece of mechanism which cuts out an
electric current at regular intervals.
*Interposed.* Placed before; coming between.
*Intimate.* Very close. Nearly related.
*Insidious.* An influence, not of the best.
*Internal, expanding.* Referring to the condition of a gas
within an internal combustion engine.
*Internal cone.* A clutch which has a cone within the
wheel, to receive a part which contacts
with it.
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