gauge
Noun
gauge (plural gauges)
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
- Measure; dimensions; estimate.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker"s gauge.
- Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
- Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
- The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- The distance between the rails of a railway.
- The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (analysis) a semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
5 letters in word "gauge": A E G G U.
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