WordNet
fuel consumption rate
n. the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned [syn: mileage, gasoline mileage, gas mileage]
Usage examples of "fuel consumption rate".
We can go either faster or farther at the same fuel consumption rate.
His fuel consumption rate was much lower this high, but not sufficiently economical to make up for the gas he'd sucked up on afterburners.
Of course, now that they're traveling at sub-light speed, their fuel consumption rate has gone down ….