Definitions for standard gauge
stan·dard gauge

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1. standard gaugenoun

   railroad track having the standard width of 56.5 inches

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1. standard gaugenoun

   A specification of the width of railway tracks of 56.5 inches (1435 mm)

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1. standard gauge

   A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in East Africa. It is the most widely used track gauge around the world, with about 55% of the lines in the world using it. All high-speed rail lines use standard gauge except those in Russia, Finland, and Uzbekistan. The distance between the inside edges of the rails is defined to be 1,435 mm except in the United States and on some heritage British lines, where it is defined in U.S. customary/Imperial units as exactly "four feet eight and one half inches", which is equivalent to 1,435.1 mm.

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1. standard gauge

   Standard gauge refers to the common distance between the two rails in a railway track system, which is 1,435 millimeters or 4 feet 8.5 inches. It is the most widely used gauge in the world, accounting for more than half of the total global railway network.

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1. Standard gauge

   The standard gauge is a widely-used railway track gauge. Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge. Except for Russia and Finland, all high-speed lines have been built to this gauge. The distance between the inside edges of the rails of standard gauge track is usually called 1,435 mm but in the United States it is still called 4 ft 8 ¹⁄2 in.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of standard gauge in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of standard gauge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of standard gauge in a Sentence

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   GDP is the only standard gauge we have of the pace and direction of the overall economy and its major components, and the measures that comprise it help shape long-term business and financial planning and short-term investment algorithms.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=standard gauge
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Standard_Gauge
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Gauge
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=standard gauge