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  2. Gauge - Wikipedia

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    Gauge block, a metal or ceramic block of precisely known dimension, used in measuring; Sight glass, also known as a water gauge, for measuring liquid level heights in storage tanks and pressure vessels; Boost gauge, a gauge used in conjunction with turbo-super-chargers; Pressure gauge or vacuum gauge, see pressure measurement

  3. Variable gauge - Wikipedia

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    A variable gauge multiple unit, or a train including a variable gauge locomotive (e.g. Talgo 250) and rolling stock, may drive straight across a gauge changer. Normally the locomotive will not be able to change gauge, meaning that it must move out of the way whilst the remainder of the train itself passes through.

  4. Mexican units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A number of units were used. One vara (lit. "pole", "yard") was equal to 0.838 m (32.99 inches) as it was legally defined also use inches and feet. [1] Some other units and legal equivalents are given below:

  5. Track gauge - Wikipedia

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    It was worked by a narrow-gauge engine, and behind the narrow-gauge trucks came a broad-gauge match-truck with wide buffers and sliding shackles, followed by the broad-gauge trucks. Such trains continued to run in West Cornwall until the abolition of the Broad Gauge; they had to stop or come down to walking pace at all stations where fixed ...

  6. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    With Spanish being a grammatically gendered language, one's sexuality can be challenged with a gender-inappropriate adjective, much as in English one might refer to a flamboyant man or a transgender man as her. Some words referring to a male homosexual end in an "a" but have the masculine article "el"—a deliberate grammatical violation.

  7. Weather gage - Wikipedia

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    Gauge and gage are often used as alternative spellings. To the extent that there is a difference, a weather gauge can be a form of meteorological instrumentation for measuring weather quantitatively, such as a rain gauge, thermometer, anemometer, or barometer.

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  9. Gauge (knitting) - Wikipedia

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    The term "gauge" is used in knitting to describe the fineness size of knitting machines. It is used in both hand knitting and machine knitting . The phrase in both instances refers to the number of stitches per inch rather than the size of the finished article of clothing.