contact patch
noun
the area of contact between a tire on an automotive vehicle and the road surface.
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How to use contact patch in a sentence
Doing so lengthens the contact patch of your tires, enabling them to float on top of the sand.
This will cause your tires to wear prematurely and create an awful lot of noise, and that reduced contact patch will combine with the soft, underinflated sidewalls to entirely ruin your vehicle’s handling.
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