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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
instrument panel
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Church leaders should gather data much as airline pilots read their instrument panel during flight.
▪ I let go of the intercom switch and looked over the black ledge of the instrument panel.
▪ I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.
▪ Something smashed into his instrument panel and thin oil streaked his goggles.
▪ The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.
▪ The lights from the instrument panel fell across her skirt.
Wiktionary
instrument panel

n. A flat, (usually) vertical surface onto which controls, instruments, and displays are mounted.

WordNet
instrument panel

n. electrical device consisting of an insulated panel containing switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices; "he checked the instrument panel"; "suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree" [syn: control panel, control board, board, panel]

Wikipedia
Instrument panel

Instrument panel may refer to:

  • Control panel (engineering)
  • Flight instruments
  • Dashboard

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Usage examples of "instrument panel".

Parrol slowed the gun's ascent, checked their position carefully in the green glow of the instrument panel.

And the VDI came sliding out of the center of the instrument panel.

The bottom of the instrument panel almost touched the front of the seat.

He'd had to claw a hold onto the instrument panel with his one free hand, knowing that the density trough between the shock waves would tumble him helplessly into the rear sections of the runabout if his grasp were to be torn free.

My roundhouse right caught him a fraction too high, just on the breast-bone, and his guns went flying wildly to clatter against instrument panel and windscreen.

Blazing purple fabric, gleaming instrument panel, and shining control buttons.

He couldn't remember, and he couldn't see over the top of the instrument panel, bent over the way he was.

When Shepard finally squeezed himself into the capsule and looked at the instrument panel, there was a little sign on it saying NO HANDBALL PLAYING IN THIS AREA.