Noun

(en noun)

(always meter ) A device that measures things.

(always meter ) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

gas meter

(always meter ) (dated) One who metes or measures.

(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.

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(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

(obsolete) A poem.

Noun

(en noun)

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

* 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.

* Burke

the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt

An act of measuring.

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.

A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.

(rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.

(mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.

(knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.

Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.

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.

The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

(Totten)

The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.

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.