Retarder

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A retarder is a device used to augment or replace some of the functions of primary friction-based braking systems, usually on heavy vehicles.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Retarder (mechanical engineering)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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