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Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row by asdff on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:36PM (#23533880)
For cars with hydraulic brakes or a clutch, there is the master cylinder and the slave cylinder. the master cylinder is a pump that provides hydraulic pressure to the slave cylinder to do work.
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