regaugen.
/ˈriːɡeɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈriˌɡeɪdʒ/ An action or instance of regauging.
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regauge1871
1871 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 28 Nov. A careful regauge..proved that..there was an average all through of about two gallons gained in each barrel by the false gauge.
1891 Imperial Tariff 269 On a warrant for the re-gauge or re-test of Wine.., the officer is to allow the regauge or re-test thereof.
1955 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 118 346 When Scotch whisky is laid down for maturing its gallonage is recorded as original proof-gallons and its actual gallonage after lapse of time.., recorded as re-gauge proof-gallons.
1988 Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. The winner [of a shooting competition]..tied twice..before winning by one point on a re-gauge of the targets.
2006 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 51 Teign Valley Rifles shooters had a very narrow victory..by only one point on a re-gauge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
regaugev.
/ˌriːˈɡeɪdʒ/, U.S. /riˈɡeɪdʒ/ transitive. To gauge again (in various senses of the verb).
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regauge1737
1737 C. Cleland Abstracts Laws Wines 19 The Wine, consisting of six Hundred and twenty eight Gallons, being regauged on Delivery out of the Warehouses, the Produce thereof, according to such Sale, amounts to Fifteen Pounds Seven Shillings.
1743 C. Leadbetter Royal Gauger (new ed.) ii. xviii. 348 The Supervisor is to try the Dimensions of all Casks and Utensils by re-gauging them.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs iii. 292 The ullage cask..must be re-gauged, as must all casks entered for exportation.
1898 C. D. Jameson Portland Cement (new ed.) 110 The mortar made from cements is improved by allowing it to partially set, and then regauging it with more water.
1916 Proc. St. Louis Railway Club May 35 The track must be regauged as the rail wears.
1967 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 3 July 5/5 Your driving habits have changed... Learn to re-gauge your approach to a car up ahead so you're sure just how fast you are overtaking.
2006 P. C. W. Davies Goldilocks Enigma (2008) viii. 164 The..type of symmetry, in which a quantity is left unchanged when the measuring system is rescaled, or regauged, is very common in physics.
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reˈgauged adj. rare
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1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs App. 342 Re-gauged Ullage Contents.
reˈgauging n.
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a1743 J. Cannon Chrons. (2010) II. 405 Some other matter intervened that I heard no more of the Supervisor nor his regauging.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs App. 340 The Warehouse-keeper..issues a Note for re-gauging in the following form.
1979 Railway Gaz. Internat. Oct. 895/1 Regauging has been estimated to rob the sleepers of 3 years' life every time it is performed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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