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(noun) gage
a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
diameter of a tube or gun barrel
(noun) standard of measurement
accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
(verb) judge, approximate, estimate, guess
judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds