Definition of gauge

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Gauge (n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge..

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Water Gage :: Water gage () See Water gauge.
"""broad Gauge " :: Broad gauge () A wider distance between the rails than the standard gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge..
Planometer :: Planometer (n.) An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface..
Piezometer :: Piezometer (n.) A gauge connected with a water main to show the pressure at that point.
Pluviometer :: Pluviometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.
Gauging Rod :: Gauging rod () See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n..
Ombrometer :: Ombrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge.
Gager :: Gager (n.) A measurer. See Gauger.
Gauger-ship :: Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger.
Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg..
Recording :: Recording (a.) Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph..
Gauger :: Gauger (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Gauged :: Gauged (p. a.) Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge..
Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of..
Gaugeable :: Gaugeable (a.) Capable of being gauged.
Audiometer :: Audiometer (n.) An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.
Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..
Indicator :: Indicator (n.) A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part.
Sea Gauge :: Sea gauge () See under Gauge, n..
Former :: Former (n.) A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped..
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