gasoline mileage

1. 1.

   the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned

   Synonymsmileagefuel consumption rategas mileage

   Broaderratio

Questions about gasoline mileage

What does gasoline mileage mean?

gasoline mileage means "the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned".

What is another word for gasoline mileage?

Close synonyms include mileage, fuel consumption rate, gas mileage. 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 gasoline mileage a common word?

gasoline mileage 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.