gauge

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[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• gage

[edit] Etymology

Middle English gaugen from Old French gauger < gauge "gauging rod", of Germanic origin from Frankish *galgo "measuring rod, pole" from Proto-Germanic *galg- (“‘pole’”). Akin to Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English gealga "cross-beam, gallows", Old Norse galgi "cross-beam, gallows", Old Norse gelgja "pole, perch"

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: gāj, IPA: ɡeɪdʒ, SAMPA: geIdZ
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  Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

[edit] Noun

gauge (plural gauges)

1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard; an act of measuring.
   • 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.

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

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[edit] Derived terms

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

[edit] Verb

to gauge (third-person singular simple present gauges, present participle gauging, simple past and past participle gauged)

1. (transitive) To measure or determine usually with a gauge; to measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.

[edit] Translations

• Finnish: mitata fi(fi)

[edit] References

• gauge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913