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ring gauge
noun
A cylindrical ring of a thermally stable material, often steel, whose inside diameter is finished to gauge tolerance and is used for checking the external diameter of a cylindrical object.
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My goal was to pass the ring gauge test.
The moment of pride occurred when Daniel inserted my cigar into the 58 hole on the ring gauge, and pronounced it a perfect fit.
The only measurement tool used in cigar rolling, the ring gauge is a metal paddle perforated with holes calibrated in increments of one-sixty-fourth of an inch.
It was based on the size (length and ring gauge) known as Lonsdale, named after Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, who also gave his name to the Lonsdale belt in boxing.
They draw maps in order to memorize them; study the nuts and bolts of craft-brewing beer; and examine cigars in detail, from the ring, gauge and wrapping to the color of the leaves.
Cigars lengths are measured in inches and the diameters by ring gauge, or sixty-fourths of an inch.
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This cigar measures 6 inches (15.2 cm) by 42-ring gauge -- this refers to the diameter of the cigar.
This cigar measures 7 inches (17.8 cm) by 38-ring gauge and is longer and thinner than the Corona.
After 426 Ah (0.55 MGy) of operation in the SPring-8 storage ring, vacuum gauge cables were found to be damaged by radiation.
The soil penetrometers that were compared were the Profiler 3000 (Veris Technologies1), the Investigator Soil Compaction Meter (Spectrum Technologies Inc ., the Soil Compaction Tester (Dickey-john Corporathen), and the proving-ring dial gauge cone penetrometer (ELE International/Soiltest Inc).
The materials: (1) one index-finger oximeter, which detects the pulse and blood-oxygen level of its wearer; (2) one peak-flow meter, a white plastic device, used mostly by asthmatics to measure respiratory capacity; and (3) two mood rings, to gauge emotional output.
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