Gauge
WordNet
noun
(1) A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
(2) Diameter of a tube or gun barrel
(3) The thickness of wire
(4) The distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
(5) Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
(6) Mix in specific proportions
"Gauge plaster"
(7) Adapt to a specified measurement
"Gauge the instruments"
(8) Measure precisely and against a standard
"The wire is gauged"
(9) Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
"I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
(10) Determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
"Gauge the wine barrels"
(11) Rub to a uniform size
"Gauge bricks"
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Etymology
gaugen from gauger < gauge "gauging rod", of origin from *galgo "measuring rod, pole" from . Akin to galgo, galga, gealga "cross-beam, gallows", galgi "cross-beam, gallows", gelgja "pole, perch"
Noun
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard; an act of measuring.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 2.
- The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 2.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
- The distance between the rails of a railway.
- A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.