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• Power Wheels — is a brand of battery powered ride on toy cars for kids ages 12 months to seven years old. Power Wheels ride ons are built with kid sized, realistic features – in some cases, real working features like FM radios, opening/closing doors and hoods,… …   Wikipedia

• Pedal keyboard — The 30 note pedalboard of a Rieger organ. A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard[1]) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low pitched bass… …   Wikipedia

• Pedal steel guitar — The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal slide to stop the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. The pedal steel is placed horizontally on a stand, with the strings facing up towards… …   Wikipedia

• power brake — noun a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle • Hypernyms: ↑brake • Hyponyms: ↑airbrake • Part Holonyms: ↑motor vehicle, ↑automotive… …   Useful english dictionary

• Pedal radio — The Pedal Radio (or Pedal Wireless) was developed by Alfred Traeger in 1929 as a way of providing radio communications to remote homesteads in the Australian outback. There was no mains or generator power available at the time and batteries to… …   Wikipedia

• pedal — pedal1 [ pɛd(ə)l] noun 1》 each of a pair of foot operated levers for powering a bicycle or other vehicle propelled by leg power. 2》 a foot operated throttle, brake, or clutch control in a motor vehicle. 3》 each of a set of two or three foot… …   English new terms dictionary

• Power supply — For the Budgie album, see Power Supply (album). A vacuum tube rackmount adjustable power supply, capable of +/ 1500 volts DC, 0 to 100mA output, with amperage limiting capability. A power supply is a device that supplies electrical energy …   Wikipedia

• power brakes — (PB) A conventional hydraulic brake system that uses engine vacuum to operate a vacuum power piston, the power piston applies pressure to the brake pedal, or in some cases, directly to the master cylinder piston. This system reduces the amount of …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• pedal — /ped l/ or, for 6 8, /peed l/, n., v., pedaled, pedaling or (esp. Brit.) pedalled, pedalling, adj. n. 1. a foot operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as… …   Universalium

• pedal —  , peddle  The first applies to devices or actions involving foot power the pedal on a piano, to pedal a bicycle. The second is a verb only, meaning to sell goods in an informal or itinerant manner. The person who sells such goods is a peddler …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors