It also is used in industrial moisture density gauges, certain smoke detectors, and medical diagnostic devices.
The source of the fire was electrical – forensics are gauging exactly what – and the smoke had seeped through the vents between our terraced houses.
I sat on the hood of the HiLux, as Levi shot a bearing to the target with his compass, and gauged the winds by the smoke blowing off the trash pit.
— Sam Sifton British GQ: Gauging the real effectiveness of the "eat less, smoke more" diet.
Starting in 1992 as a financial reporter cold-calling executives in the emerging private sector, he developed an ability to gauge who was making money and who was blowing smoke.
Monsters disappear in a puff of smoke when killed, reappearing with a full life gauge in the same room some time later.
And if you used extremely thin gauge wire, you can end up in a situation where you get smoke belching from the new windings almost right after you plug it in.
By improving the sensitivity of their NNAL-Gluc detector 20-fold, Hecht and colleagues have gauged the effect of more ordinary exposure levels of second-hand smoke.
"After reading the gauge, she pressed the OFF button and a small internal explosion occurred," leaving "evidence of … soot and smoke stains".
