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EAP

Electronic air pump.

Early Apex

Getting to the inside of a turn sooner than usual.

Early Fuel Evaporation

A system that evaporates fuel in the intake manifold with the use of heat from the exhaust, or an electrical element to improve the engine's cold-running characteristics and to reduce emissions.

EAS

An acronym for electronic air suspension.

Easy Exit

A system that provides for easy entrance and exit of the vehicle by moving the seat all the way back and down. Some systems may also move the steering wheel up and to full retract.

EAT

Electronic automatic transaxle.

EATC

Electronic automatic temperature control.

EATX

Transmission Control Module (Chrysler).

EAVS

Electronically actuated vacuum switch.

EBCM

1. An acronym for electronic brake control module. 2. A component of a General Motors electronically controlled brake system used on some of their car lines.

EBCV

Electronic bleed control valve.

EBL

Electric back-lite.

EBTCM

Acronym for Electronic Brake and Traction Control Module.

EC

Electric choke.

ECA

An acronym for electronic control assembly.

ECAS

Electronic control air sensor.

ECAT

Electronically controlled automatic transaxle.

ECC

An acronym for electronic climate control.

Eccentric

1. Not round, or concentric 2. An offset, such as a disc, used to convert rotary motion into reciprocation motion, as in a cam lobe. 3. The relationship of two round parts having different centers, a part that contains two round surfaces, not on the same center.

Eccentric Bearing

A bearing that is thicker at the crown by a few ten thousandths of an inch.