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Definition of Standard gauge
1. Noun. Railroad track having the standard width of 56.5 inches.
Definition of Standard gauge
1. Noun. A specification of the width of railway tracks of 56.5 inches (1435 mm) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Standard Gauge
Literary usage of Standard gauge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"Their standard gauge is the same as in England, but there were formerly five
other gauges in extensive use in North America, three of them larger than the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Annual Convention by Mid-West Cement Users' Association (1915)
"standard gauge Line: This is a gauge line used usually to determine changes ...
standard gauge line is adopted, therefore, as the more general term and any ..."
3. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"The steam shovels and locomotive cranes could have been taken at much less expense
to the work over a standard-gauge track, and also from place to place on ..."
4. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference-book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1898)
"... is to establish an authoritative standard gauge for the measurement of sheet
and plate iron. numbers in different gauges represent different thicknesses ..."
5. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"The steam shovels and locomotive cranes could have been taken at much less expense
to the work over a standard-gauge track, and also from place to place on ..."
6. Sheet-metal Work: A Manual of Practical Self-instruction in the Art of by William Neubecker, American Technical Society (1917)
"137] An act establishing a standard gauge for sheet and plate iron and steel.
... That in the practical use and application of the standard gauge hereby ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"They may vary from a light portable track to a standard-gauge road. ...
Local conditions, such as a large supply of standard-gauge material and rolling ..."
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