gage meaning

• Noun: gage  geyj
  1. Street names for marijuana
     - pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed [N. Amer], Mary Jane 
  2. [N. Amer] A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
     - gauge
  Verb: gage  geyj
  Usage: archaic
  
  1. Place a bet on
     - bet on, back, stake, game, punt

  Sounds like: gauge

  Derived forms: gaged, gages, gaging

  Type of: bet, cannabis, dagga [S.Africa], ganja, marihuana, marijuana, measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system, play, wager

  Encyclopedia: Gage, New Mexico Gage, Lyman Judson Gage Gage, Thomas Gage, Oklahoma Gage, OK

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  [Architecture]
  

  See gauge.

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  [Electronics]
  See GAUGE.
  
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  [Medicine]
  var of GAUGE
  ¹gauge
  also gage n
  1
  a : measurement according to some standard or system
  b : the dimensions or extent of something
  2 : an instrument for or a means of measuring or testing
  3 : the diameter of a slender object (as a hypodermic needle)
  

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• backscatter gage:    [Engineering]A rad ...
• buckley gage:    [Engineering]A dev ...

Examples

1. the classical examples are strain gage devices.
2. some precision gages used a thermal compensator.
3. the stability of the gage will be seriously impaired.
4. a unique example of the slack diaphragm is the draft gage.
5. the gage deflection is due to the momentum transfer.