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gauge
  1. 1 gauge, standard, measure, criterion, index
  2. 2 length, size
  3. 3 (measuring) rule, scale
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • Man is the measure of all things.

  • Money is the measure of worth.

  • The calorie is an exact measure of the energy in food.

  • As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.

  • Americans are said to regard the amount of money a man makes as a criterion of his ability.

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