spark advance

1. 1.

   the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine

   Synonymslead

   Broadertiming

Questions about spark advance

What does spark advance mean?

spark advance means "the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine".

What is another word for spark advance?

Close synonyms include lead. 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 spark advance a common word?

spark advance 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.