Sentence examples for gauge rather than from inspiring English sources

"The rail system uses a broad gauge rather than the standard gauge of most rail in the U.S., so cars must be custom-designed," CNET reported.

The incubator would have to be portable and cleanable, include a viewing window and use an intuitive temperature gauge rather than a numerical thermometer (they settled on a red/green light indicator).

We use the tallies as a rough gauge (rather than a precise estimate) of the comparative importance of themes arising in the focus groups.

The ethyl chloride study, however, was not blinded, used a larger sized cannula (18 gauge rather than 20 gauge), sprayed the vapocoolant from 25 cm until a layer of frosting was seen, 1 and had a vapocoolant group comprising only 30 patients.

"I'm sure the distinguished gentleman who got shot is just glad the vice president had a 20-gauge rather than a 12-gauge".

A five-year study that began in 2007 has adjusted global climate models to address local conditions, mining data from newly installed evaporation gauges rather than relying on theoretical predictions.

The larger scatter in the results of the in situ tests is probably explained by a lower signal-to-noise ratio due to the use of strain gauges rather than accelerometers and to differences in excitation.

Some people find it well worth the extra money to use 20 gauge studs rather than the usual 25 gauge ones.

Since the crabs were not moving, Dr. Layne said, this shows that they were using leg movements as a cue to gauge distance, rather than acceleration or the movement of the landscape across their vision.

Deformations within the gauge length rather than L 3 were also measured for another research purpose, which is not presented herein.

To address these concerns, the recommendation in this paper is for providers of Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technology products to perform a criticality analysis on their own products to gauge resilience, rather than later be confronted by an acquirer attempting to solely reverse engineer the system as part of supply chain due-diligence.