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n. (context mechanics English) A type of differential gear used in automobile construction, allowing for output shafts to have different angular velocity. (from 20th c.)
Wikipedia
A limited-slip differential is a type of automotive differential gear arrangement that allows for some difference in angular velocity of the output shafts, but imposes a mechanical limit on the disparity.
In an automobile, such limited-slip differentials are sometimes used in place of a standard differential, where they convey certain dynamic advantages, at the expense of greater complexity.
Usage examples of "limited-slip differential".
In fact, he was a machine himself, with his arms levering more or less together, sharing his drastically limited muscular power as though connected by an old fashioned limited-slip differential.