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2. Body jewelry sizes - Wikipedia

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   Discussions of gauge in this article use the American Wire Gauge (AWG) scale. Some jewelry may use the significantly different Standard Wire Gauge (SWG) scale instead, particularly jewelry from Canada or the United Kingdom where the SWG scale is used. [2] Both AWG and SWG express sizes as a gauge, but the numbers are different.

3. Bird measurement - Wikipedia

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   Measuring the culmen. The upper margin of the beak or bill is referred to as the culmen.The measurement is taken using calipers with one jaw at the tip of the upper mandible and the other at the base of the bill (at the junction with the skull, a measurement called "total culmen") or where the feathers begin (a measurement called "exposed culmen").

4. Stretching (body piercing) - Wikipedia

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   In North America, most stretching methods go up by a single even-sized gauge increment at a time. 0g (8 mm [4]), is generally considered to be "the point of no return": [5] a hole larger than this size will rarely close to a standard piercing size. Since each body is different, any stretched piercings, no matter the size, should be approached ...

5. Plug (jewellery) - Wikipedia

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   Inca men wore gold or silver plugs in the ears, which indicated their nobility. Their stretched piercings, which could reach the size of two inches, later inspired a Spanish nickname for the Inca people: orejones ("big ears"). [5] [6] Ivory earplugs have been used by the Hmong people. [7] Silver plugs, called rombin, are worn by Aka women. [8]

6. Center gauge - Wikipedia

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   Two different thread setting gauges. Center gauges and fishtail gauges [1] are gauges used in lathe work for checking the angles when grinding the profiles of single-point screw-cutting tool bits and centers. In the image, the gauge on the left is called a fishtail gauge or center gauge, and the one on the right is another style of center gauge ...

7. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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   A trailing outstroke, as in j y J Q R is a tail. The inferior diagonal stroke in K is a leg. [9] The bottom of the two-story g is a loop; the very short stroke at the top is the ear. [10] The letters i j each have a dot or tittle. [10] A short horizontal stroke, as in the center of e f and the middle stroke of E F, is a bar.