gaugeable
可测量,可测,可衡量,可测量的
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gauged, gaug·ing.
- : to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- : to appraise, estimate, or judge.
- : to make conformable to a standard.
- : to mark or measure off; delineate.
- : to prepare or mix with a definite proportion of plaster of Paris and mortar.
- : to chip or rub to a uniform size or shape.
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- : a standard of measure or measurement.
- : a standard dimension, size, or quantity.
- : any device or instrument for measuring, registering measurements, or testing something, especially for measuring a dimension, quantity, or mechanical accuracy: pressure gauge; marking gauge.
- : a means of estimating or judging; criterion; test.
- : extent; scope; capacity: trying to determine the gauge of his own strength.
- : Ordnance. a unit of measure of the internal diameter of a shotgun barrel, determined by the number of spherical lead bullets of a diameter equal to that of the bore that are required to make one pound: a twelve-gauge shotgun.
- : Railroads. the distance between the inner edges of the heads of the rails in a track, usually 4 feet 8.5 inches , but sometimes more and sometimes less .
- : the distance between a pair of wheels on an axle.
- : the thickness or diameter of various, usually thin, objects, as the thickness of sheet metal or the diameter of a wire or screw.
- : the fineness of a knitted fabric as expressed in loops per every 1.5 inches: 15 denier, 60 gauge stockings.
- : Nautical. the position of one vessel as being to the windward or to the leeward of another vessel on an approximately parallel course.
- : Building Trades. the portion of the length of a slate, tile, etc., left exposed when laid in place.
- : the amount of plaster of Paris mixed with mortar or common plaster to hasten the set.
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Scientists have long known that the brain harbors the biological equivalent of a car’s fuel gauge—a complex homeostatic system that allows our gray matter to track the state of our basic biological needs, like those for food, water, and sleep.
Once the temperature gauge on top let us know that the grill was adequately heated, we loaded the 285-square-inch grate with all our meat at once.
Simultaneous increases in equity and volatility gauges are unusual, and a reason for concern for some.
They assess how financially healthy a company is and act as an independent gauge, letting investors in a company know how likely that company is to pay back its debt, for instance.
Use this activity from NASA to design and build your own rain gauge.
It took the entire day, but the slow pace indicated that it was probably a test to gauge public reaction.
So, he approached his nomadic friends to gauge their interest in the collaboration.
To gauge his level of truthfulness, I asked, “So, you wouldn't mind if I included your donor identification number in the story?”
The only gauge of normality that young people have is their observation of each other.
When a soldier is hit by an IED the gauge records the event.
The gauge of railways in Great Britain was not fixed upon any scientific principle.
Trevithick determined in future to use two safety-valves, and also a safety steam-gauge.
The Commonwealth has for some time been considering the conversion of the lines into one standard gauge, the British gauge of 4ft.
The leaf is held in one hand and the gauge and knife in the other, the edge of the leaf being drawn through the gauge.
For this purpose there is used in most localities a small gauge held between the thumb and index fingers.