turn indicator

1. 1.

   a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn

   Synonymsblinkerturn signaltrafficator

   Broadervisual signal

   Part ofelectrical system

Questions about turn indicator

What does turn indicator mean?

turn indicator means "a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn".

What is another word for turn indicator?

Close synonyms include blinker, turn signal, trafficator. 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 turn indicator a common word?

turn indicator 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.