gauge

Englisch

Alternative forms

• gage

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) gage, (deprecated template usage) gaugen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman, (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  (deprecated template usage) gauger (compare Modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) jauger from Old French (deprecated template usage) jaugier), from (deprecated template usage) gauge, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *galga (“measuring rod, pole”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *g'hAlgh-, *g'hAlg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German (deprecated template usage) galgo, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Frisian (deprecated template usage) galga, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) galgi, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) gelgja.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gāj, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪdʒ/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Nomen

gauge (plural gauges)

1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
   • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 2.

     The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.

   • Burke

     the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt

2. An act of measuring.
3. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
4. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
5. (deprecated template usage) (rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
6. (deprecated template usage) (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
7. (deprecated template usage) (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
8. (deprecated template usage) (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.

   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.

9. (deprecated template usage) (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

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10. (deprecated template usage) (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
11. 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.
12. (deprecated template usage) (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
13. (deprecated template usage) (slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).

Translations

a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

• Bulgarian: мярка (bg) f (mjarka), размер (bg) m (razmer), шаблон (bg) m (šablon)
• Dutch: meter (nl)
• Finnish: mitta (fi)
• French: gabarit (fr) m
• German: Meter (de) n, Messgerät (de) n, Maß (de) n
• Italian: calibro (it) m
• Latvian: mērogs (lv) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mål (no) n

  Nynorsk: mål n

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• Portuguese: medida (pt) f
• Russian: ме́ра (ru) f (méra), кали́бр (ru) m (kalíbr), разме́р (ru) m (razmér), масшта́б (ru) m (masštáb), габари́т (ru) m (gabarít)
• Spanish: calibración (es) f, medida (es) f
• Swahili: geji (sw)
• Swedish: mått (sv)

any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge

• Bulgarian: измерителен уред m (izmeritelen ured)
• Finnish: mittari (fi)
• French: étalon (fr) m
• German: Messgerät (de) n, Meter (de) f
• Italian: calibro (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: måler m

  Nynorsk: målar m

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• Russian: измери́тельный прибо́р m (izmerítelʹnyj pribór), измери́тель (ru) m (izmerítelʹ), лека́ло (ru) n (lekálo), этало́н (ru) m (etalón), шабло́н (ru) m (šablón), метр (ru) m (metr)
• Spanish: galga f, calibre (es) m
• Swahili: geji (sw)
• Swedish: mätare (sv) c

distance between the rails of a railway

• Bulgarian: междурелсие n (meždurelsie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軌距／轨距 (zh) (guǐjù), 轨距 (zh) (guǐjù)

• Czech: rozchod (cs) m
• Dutch: spoorwijdte f
• Finnish: raideleveys
• French: écartement (fr) m
• German: Spurweite (de) f
• Italian: scartamento (it) m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sporvidde m or f, sporbredde m

  Nynorsk: sporvidd f, sporvidde f, sporbreidd f, sporbreidde f

• Portuguese: bitola f
• Russian: ширина́ колеи́ f (širiná koleí), колея́ (ru) f (kolejá)
• Spanish: trocha f
• Swahili: geji (sw)

a semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space

• Dutch: ijk (nl)
• Finnish: puolinormi
• German: Maß (de) n
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• Icelandic: kvarði (is) m
• Portuguese: calibre (pt) m
• Russian: ме́ра (ru) f (méra), кали́бр (ru) m (kalíbr)
• Swahili: geji (sw)

Derived terms

• broad gauge
• Coulomb gauge
• gauge boson
• gauge field
• gauge theory
• lattice gauge theory
• Lorentz gauge
• narrow gauge
• quantum gauge theory
• rail gauge
• rain gauge
• standard gauge
• Weyl gauge

Verb

1. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
2. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To estimate.
3. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
   • Shakespeare

     You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.

4. (deprecated template usage) (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
5. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
6. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

Translations

measure

• Dutch: meten (nl)
• Finnish: mitata (fi)
• French: mesurer (fr)
• German: messen (de)
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• Polish: mierzyć (pl), dokonywać pomiaru
• Russian: измеря́ть (ru) (izmerjátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: tomhais
• Spanish: medir (es)
• Swedish: mäta (sv)

to appraise the character of

• French: estimer (fr), jauger (fr)
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• Russian: оце́нивать (ru) (océnivatʹ), прики́дывать (ru) (prikídyvatʹ)

See also

• gage
• gouge

References

• “gauge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Old French

Nomen

gauge oblique singular, f (oblique plural gauges, nominative singular gauge, nominative plural gauges)

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of jauge