dashlight

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noun

A light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile.

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Meanings

noundashlight (plural dashlights)

plural dashlights

  1. A light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile.

    Drivers are to be exposed to the emergencies under different levels of dashlight intensity. The response variable will be the sum of a driver's reaction times to the series of emergencies under a given level of intensity.

    1985, George William Summers, William Stanley Peters, Charles P. Armstrong, Basic Statistics in Business and Economics, page 472

Origin

From dash + light.

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APA

dashlight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dashlight

MLA

“dashlight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dashlight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dashlight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dashlight.

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