Crossword clues for cruise control
cruise control
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A system that maintains a vehicle at constant set speed, usually until the brake or accelerator is pressed. 2 A state of being where tasks are completely easily, and routinely.
WordNet
n. control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed
Wikipedia
Cruise control (sometimes known as speed control or autocruise, or tempomat in some countries) is a system that automatically controls the speed of a motor vehicle. The system is a servomechanism that takes over the throttle of the car to maintain a steady speed as set by the driver.
Cruise Control is a 2014 play by David Williamson.
Usage examples of "cruise control".
There was air conditioning (that certainly wouldn't work), and cruise control, and a big pushbutton radio with lots of chrome - AM only, of course.
He set the cruise control on 110 kilometers and sat back as the big four-wheel-drive rolled effortlessly over the pavement.
He was now just under fifteen thousand feet, flying on cruise control.
If you're not on cruise control, your adrenaline will eventually get to you and you'll go flying past some cop at a hundred and ten, and it'll feel like forty-five.
An unfamiliar lever caught my eye, mounted to the left of the cruise control knob.
Keller pointed the car in the right direction and set the cruise control three miles an hour over the posted speed limit.
They set the aircab to traffic-safe random cruise control before getting out of it at their club.
We were on a stretch of empty two-lane through the gentle pasturelands above Salem, the cruise control set at a drowsy forty-five.
That was excellent, because it let him sort of coast along on a mental cruise control, while he thought about Yvonne and all the things he was going to say to her when he found her.
The Porsche had a cruise control, and he pegged his to five klicks over the posted limit, just to have the satisfaction of going a little too fast.
At seventy miles per hour she put the car on cruise control and called Harry Crisp.
The cruise control was set to two miles over the speed limit—.