cruise control

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   control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed

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Questions about cruise control

What does cruise control mean?

cruise control means "control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed".

Is cruise control a common word?

cruise control 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.