instrument panel

Questions about instrument panel

What does instrument panel mean?

instrument panel means "electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices".

What is another word for instrument panel?

Close synonyms include control panel, control board, board, panel. 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 instrument panel a common word?

instrument panel 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.