gauge
- Noun. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
- Noun. An act of measuring.
- Noun. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
- Noun. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
- Noun. The distance between the rails of a railway.
- Noun. (context, mathematics) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- 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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