0 past simple and past participle of gauge
1 to calculate an amount, especially by using a measuring device:
Use a thermometer to gauge the temperature.
2 to make a judgment about something, usually people's feelings:
However, because perceptions of closeness are gauged by a three-point scale the independent variable effects perhaps ought to be estimated with an ordered probit model.
This certification allowed very accomplished students to teach at the conservatoire and gauged a student's level as being comparable to a level of teaching.
Such traits cannot be defined solely by genotype or by phenotype, but are better considered as decision rules gauged to ecological inputs.
Political interest is gauged by the standard question of how frequently people follow what is going on in government.
In the simplest version of this paradigm, this knowledge is gauged by measuring repetition accuracy.
Pictured rotation is confounded by picture similarity, gauged by gray-level correlations.
Implementation required public notice of intent and a majority vote of the divisional council determined by landowner opinion gauged through petitions and public meetings.
The full extent and significance of such attitudes can be gauged only by detailed local studies.
