fuel gauge

1. 1.

   an indicator of the amount of fuel remaining in a vehicle

   Synonymsfuel indicator

   Broaderindicator

   Part offuel system

Questions about fuel gauge

What does fuel gauge mean?

fuel gauge means "an indicator of the amount of fuel remaining in a vehicle".

What is another word for fuel gauge?

Close synonyms include fuel indicator. 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 fuel gauge a common word?

fuel gauge 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.