miles per gallon

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   the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel

   Broaderunit of measurement

Questions about miles per gallon

What does miles per gallon mean?

miles per gallon means "the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel".

Is miles per gallon a common word?

miles per gallon 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.