standard gauge

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   railroad track having the standard width of 56.5 inches

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Questions about standard gauge

What does standard gauge mean?

standard gauge means "railroad track having the standard width of 56.5 inches".

Is standard gauge a common word?

standard gauge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.