avas
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Acronym of acoustic vehicle alerting system: a system in an electric vehicle that generates artificial driving sounds alerting pedestrians and other road users of the vehicle's presence.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The coming Audi E-tron GT, for example, has control units that remix the sound effects based on the car’s speed or the position of the accelerator pedal. Also fitted to the Audi is an AVAS — an acoustic vehicle alerting system, required to alert pedestrians that an electric car is close by."
- "Tony Bowen, of Brigade Electronics, a firm that spent three years developing a “quiet vehicle sounder”, said permissible frequencies and modulation under the regulation make it clear that the Avas should mimic an internal combustion engine."