shock absorber
noun
: any of several devices for absorbing the energy of sudden impulses or shocks in machinery or structures
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The car needs new shock absorbers.
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The biomarkers are measured using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the watery liquid that fills and surrounds the brain and spinal cord and provides nutrients, removes waste, and acts as a shock absorber for these delicate organs.
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New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2024
Vehicles come equipped with unique shock absorbers to cushion the impact from a grueling rock climb.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
In a sense, then, the global economy is traveling without shock absorbers.
—J. Tomilson Hill, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
And the tour de force is the ProActive Chassis Control system, which does away with conventional shock absorbers and heavy antiroll bars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
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New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2024
Vehicles come equipped with unique shock absorbers to cushion the impact from a grueling rock climb.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
In a sense, then, the global economy is traveling without shock absorbers.
—J. Tomilson Hill, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
And the tour de force is the ProActive Chassis Control system, which does away with conventional shock absorbers and heavy antiroll bars.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
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“Shock absorber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shock%20absorber. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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