accelerator pedal

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• accelerator pedal — noun a pedal that controls the throttle valve he stepped on the gas • Syn: ↑accelerator, ↑gas pedal, ↑gas, ↑throttle, ↑gun • Derivationally related forms: ↑throttle ( …   Useful english dictionary

• accelerator pedal — The accelerator, gas pedal, or throttle pedal …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• pedal — A lever operated by the foot. See accelerator accelerator pedal brake pedal clipless pedal clutch pedal dead pedal depress the gas pedal depress the throttle pedal ease up on the throttle pedal …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Pedal keyboard — The 30 note pedalboard of a Rieger organ. A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard[1]) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low pitched bass… …   Wikipedia

• pedal — ped|al1 [ˈpedl] n [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: pedale, from Italian, from Latin pedalis of the foot ] 1.) also bicycle pedal one of the two parts of a bicycle that you push round with your feet to make the bicycle go forward 2.) a part in… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• pedal — 1 noun (C) 1 one of the two parts of a bicycle that you push round with your feet to make the bicycle go forward 2 a part in a car or on a machine that you press with your foot to control it: the accelerator pedal 3 a part on a piano or organ… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Accelerator — may mean:*Accelerator (car) (also gas pedal ), that controls the engine speed of an automobile *accelerator (chemistry), a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction *Accelerator (computing) to speed a function in computer hardware… …   Wikipedia

• accelerator — ► NOUN 1) a foot pedal which controls the speed of a vehicle s engine. 2) Physics an apparatus for accelerating charged particles to high velocities. 3) a substance that speeds up a chemical process …   English terms dictionary

• pedal to the metal — accelerator all the way down, flat out    He always drives fast pedal to the metal all the time …   English idioms

• accelerator — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gas pedal, throttle. See vehicle, velocity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. atomic accelerator, particle accelerator, atom smasher. Types of (particle) accelerators include: Bevatron, Cosmotron, cyclotron,… …   English dictionary for students

• pedal — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ accelerator, brake, clutch, gas (esp. AmE) ▪ foot ▪ To stop the machine push the foot pedal. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary