Gauge(n.)
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
Gauge(n.)
- Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
Gauge(n.)
- Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, 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.
Gauge(n.)
- The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Gauge(n.)
- The distance between the rails of a railway.
Gauge(n.)
- The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
Gauge(n.)
- 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.
Gauged(p. a.)
- Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.