rejet
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rejet (third-person singular simple present rejets, present participle rejetting, simple past and past participle rejetted)
- To change the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to replace or adjust a carburetor jet.
- 1989, Larry Shepard, How to Hot Rod Small-block Mopar Engines[1], page 140:
- As a general rule the four-hole spacer helps torque while the one-hole spacer helps top end. You may have to rejet the carburetor before any gain from the spacer is found, whether it is a one-hole or a four-hole.
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Compare with rejeter (verb) and English reject (verb and noun).
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rejet m (plural rejets)
- reject, thing (especially a graft) that is rejected or thrown away
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- “rejet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.