How to Use binnacle in a Sentence

binnacle

noun
Definition of binnaclenext
  • Ahead lies the configurable instrument screen, housed in a slender binnacle.
    — WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The instrument binnacle is mounted to and moves with the steering column.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
  • There's even a conventional binnacle atop the main instrument display in front of the driver.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The only real nod to the past inside the modern-looking cabin is the binnacle atop the dash with analog gauges for boost pressure, turbo rpm, and battery voltage.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The instrument cluster — a thin, curved LCD panel — replaces the usual gauge binnacle.
    — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • When deployed, that binnacle lowers, ramp style, toward the ground, releasing the robot.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 21 May 2019
  • Ventilation and drive-mode buttons are grouped in a binnacle next to the gear selector, with other most functions controlled by the 10-inch touchscreen above.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Instruments are tucked down deep in their binnacle, and an 8.0-inch display screen rises prominently from the dashboard above the digital climate controls.
    — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2018
  • There's a similarly sized digital gauge display in the binnacle, but that's likely reserved for fancier variants.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Digital screens have also replaced most of the traditional analog dials that used to live in your average Porsche instrument binnacle.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
  • Porsche’s configurable gauge cluster can display maps and navigation instructions in its right binnacle.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Again, this remains my favorite implementation of a digital instrument display—so far only Audi seems to be thinking outside of the rectangular box to fill the entire binnacle.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2018

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