instrument panel
noun
: a panel on which instruments are mounted
especially : dashboard sense 2
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Inside, the dual-screen instrument panel/infotainment interface is present, and the 6 feels spacious front and rear despite its slightly shorter wheelbase. 
Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 14 July 2022 The shape of the free-standing instrument panel was influenced by aircraft wings. Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2022 When the driver shut offs the vehicle, a reminder pops up on the instrument panel to check the rear seat. Morgan Korn, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2022 The instrument panel cluster may not properly illuminate telltales or gauges and the speedometer and tachometer pointers. USA TODAY, 24 June 2022 Each mode changes the look of the main instrument panel, with a user-configurable section to the left of the screen in the first three modes. Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022 The instrument panel can accommodate old-school dials or an all-glass arrangement and includes a full range of Garmin nav and communications gear, with engine analyzer. J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2022 The cabin is wrapped in ambient lighting that sweeps across the dash and into the doors, and is highlighted around the air-vent control knobs and from beneath the floating instrument panel. Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2022 In addition to the emergency button, the Lightning frunk may be opened with the the key fob, the touch screen, the instrument panel, the door keypad, the customer’s phone via the Ford Pass app and an exterior manual button. Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2022 See More
Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 14 July 2022 The shape of the free-standing instrument panel was influenced by aircraft wings. Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2022 When the driver shut offs the vehicle, a reminder pops up on the instrument panel to check the rear seat. Morgan Korn, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2022 The instrument panel cluster may not properly illuminate telltales or gauges and the speedometer and tachometer pointers. USA TODAY, 24 June 2022 Each mode changes the look of the main instrument panel, with a user-configurable section to the left of the screen in the first three modes. Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022 The instrument panel can accommodate old-school dials or an all-glass arrangement and includes a full range of Garmin nav and communications gear, with engine analyzer. J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2022 The cabin is wrapped in ambient lighting that sweeps across the dash and into the doors, and is highlighted around the air-vent control knobs and from beneath the floating instrument panel. Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2022 In addition to the emergency button, the Lightning frunk may be opened with the the key fob, the touch screen, the instrument panel, the door keypad, the customer’s phone via the Ford Pass app and an exterior manual button. Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1922, in the meaning defined above