a thin metal strip of known thickness used to measure a narrow gap or to set a gap between two parts
Examples of 'feeler gauge' in a sentence
feeler gauge
After five days, the amount of separation was measured with a feeler gauge.
Tulika Tripathi, Navneet Singh, Priyank Rai, Neha Khanna 2019, 'Separation and pain perception of Elastomeric, Kesling and Kansal separators', Dental Press Journal of Orthodonticshttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2176-94512019000200042&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)