accelerator pedal

Questions about accelerator pedal

What does accelerator pedal mean?

accelerator pedal means "a pedal that controls the throttle valve".

What is another word for accelerator pedal?

Close synonyms include accelerator, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accelerator pedal a common word?

accelerator pedal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.