"fuel gauge" meaning in All languages combined

See fuel gauge on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: fuel gauges [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fuel gauge (plural fuel gauges)
  1. An instrument, usually mounted on an instrument panel, which indicates the quantity of fuel in the fuel tank(s). Translations (measuring instrument): عَدَّاد الوَقُود (ʕaddād al-waqūd) [masculine] (Arabic), brændstofsmåler [common-gender] (Danish), benzinmåler [common-gender] (Danish), Benzinuhr [feminine] (German), Tankuhr [feminine] (German), drivstoffmåler [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål)

Inflected forms

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