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Word: gauge (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
  • An act of measuring.
  • 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.
  • mathematics|analysis A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
  • The distance between the rails of a railway.

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Verb:

  • transitive To measure or determine usually with a gauge; to measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.

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