gauging
noun1
Measurement or estimation, with or as if with a gauge.
- Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then1986, Brad Johnson, “Coming of Age”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 19:
- periodic gaugings of the water level
2
The addition of various materials to lime mortar.
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Business, Manufacturing, Sewing, Textiles A shirring.