gauge

  1. Noun.  A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
  2. Noun.  An act of measuring.
  3. Noun.  Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
  4. Noun.  A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
  5. Noun.  The distance between the rails of a railway.
  6. Noun.  (context, mathematics) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
  7. 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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