The word "gauging" is correct and usable in written English.
It can refer to measuring or estimating the size, amount, or degree of something. You can also use it to refer to testing or judging something. For example, "The teacher was gauging the students' understanding of the material before moving on to the next lesson."
Turnbull, the other potential contender, dismissed a report that he had called several Liberal MPs gauging their support.
And even then, law enforcement had to use a tape measure to sort out jurisdiction, gauging the distance between the barrel of the gun and the point of bullet impact to persuade the local police to intervene.
Mr Berger is a cautious lawyer, skilled at gauging congressional opinion.
Instead of gauging their responses with pellets of food, he probed them with recording electrodes.
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MODERN medicine may be good at gauging the health of patients, but it has proved less successful at taking its own pulse.
Gauging whether people are setting aside enough from their current income depends on what you assume those people will want to consume or bequeath in future, what wealth they have already accumulated and what returns on those assets will be.Measurement problems bedevil this process.
"So it is almost unthinkable that we would default".The rating agencies do usually consider inflation when gauging default risk, since hyperinflation carries a risk of devaluation, political instability and other nasty effects.
Critics say it would make little or no difference.The disagreement reflects the difficulty of gauging the impact of free-trade agreements.
Although many factories in the area are still gauging the damage, it is not a big industrial or population centre.
Prices in Japan's biggest cities rose faster, but nationwide figures matter more when gauging the impact on the economy.
