pakem

Borrowed from Dutch pakken (“to grip”).

• IPA^(key): /pakəm/
• Hyphenation: pa‧kem

pakem (plural pakem-pakem)

1. (automotive) holding well (of brakes)

   Kalau tekanan tetap konstan dan area meningkat, maka gaya yang diberikan akan meningkat artinya rem akan lebih pakem.

   If the pressure remains constant and the area increases, then the force applied will increase, meaning the brakes will hold on better.

• “pakem”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “pakem”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• Alan M. Stevens; A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings (2010), A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, →ISBN