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BWG

BWG is the initialism of Birmingham wire gauge.

Meaning of Birmingham wire gauge

Noun

Birmingham wire gauge (uncountable)

  1. A standard for the measurement of the diameter of wire (and hypodermic needles, catheters, etc.), using a scale from 5Ø or 00000 (corresponding to the largest size of 0.5 inches or 12.7 millimetres) to 36 (the smallest size of 0.004 in or 0.10 mm).

Questions about BWG

What is BWG the initialism of?
BWG is the initialism of Birmingham wire gauge.

Words near BWG in the dictionary

  1. BWC
  2. BWCs
  3. BWD
  4. BWER
  5. BWERs
  6. BWG
  7. BWI
  8. BWIR
  9. Bwiti
  10. BWM
  11. BWMs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BWG (page history and authors); Birmingham wire gauge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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