How to Use binnacle in a Sentence

binnacle

noun

• 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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