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noun

the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.

First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.

First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.

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And that gets to the heart of what makes the game so incredible: By staying silent, it turns the player into the game master.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Dickens was a master of heart-wrenching pathos because he felt every pain as he wrote.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Why was a master photographer recruited to work with one of the most successful liquor brands on the planet?
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So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City.
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Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Why should not Aristide, past master in drumming, find an honourable position in the orchestra of the Tournée Gulland?
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini

British Dictionary definitions for master cylinder

master cylinder

noun

a large cylinder in a hydraulic system in which the working fluid is compressed by a piston enabling it to drive one or more slave cylindersSee also slave cylinder

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