thinking distance
noun
The distance travelled by a motor vehicle between the time when the driver first decides to stop and the time when he or she begins to apply the brake.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Times Herald (New York).
- androsterone
- -androus
- André, John
- and so forth
- and so on (or forth)
- and such
- (and) that's all she wrote
- and the like
- and then some
- and the rest
- and what not
- -ane
- an early bath
- an early grave
- an early night
- anecdotage
- anecdotal
- anecdotalist
- anecdotally
- anecdote
- anecdotic
- anecdotist
- a necessary evil
- anechoic
- a needle in a haystack