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gauging

gauging is the present participle and gerund of gauge.

Noun

gauging (plural gaugings)

  1. Measurement or estimation, with or as if with a gauge.
    • Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then1986, Brad Johnson, “Coming of Age”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 19
    • periodic gaugings of the water level
  2. The addition of various materials to lime mortar.
  3. A shirring.

Meaning of gauge

Verb

gauge (third-person singular simple present gauges, present participle gauging, simple past and past participle gauged)

  1. (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
  2. (transitive) To estimate.
  3. (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
    • You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  4. (transitive, textile) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
  5. (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
  6. (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

See all 22 meanings of gauge

Forms of gauging

pluralgaugings

Questions about gauging

What does gauging mean?
Gauging means measurement or estimation, with or as if with a gauge.
What is gauging the present participle and gerund of?
Gauging is the present participle and gerund of gauge.
What part of speech is gauging?
Gauging is a noun.
What is the plural of gauging?
The plural of gauging is gaugings.

Words near gauging in the dictionary

  1. gaugest
  2. gaugeth
  3. Gaughan
  4. Gaughans
  5. Gaughen
  6. gauging
  7. gaugings
  8. gaugino
  9. gauginos
  10. Gaugler
  11. Gauglers

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