wire gauge

1. 1.

   gauge for measuring the diameter of wire

   Synonymswire gage

   Broadergauge

Questions about wire gauge

What does wire gauge mean?

wire gauge means "gauge for measuring the diameter of wire".

What is another word for wire gauge?

Close synonyms include wire gage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wire gauge a common word?

wire 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.