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A number that gets larger as the wire gets thinner.
Also known as: AWG, SWG, Wire thickness number
Wire gauge numbers run backwards: a higher number is a thinner wire. The scale descends from the number of drawing operations needed to reduce a rod to that thickness, so the number counts a process rather than measuring a diameter.
States a wire's thickness as a gauge number, higher numbers denoting thinner wire.
Contexts: Technical drawing, Electrical equipment
Runs backwards because the number originally counted the drawing operations needed to reduce a rod to that size, so it records a process rather than a measurement.
Contexts: Technical drawing, Electrical equipment
Exists in several incompatible national systems, so a gauge number is meaningless without naming its system.
Contexts: Technical drawing, Electrical equipment
A numeral printed on a cable sleeve or a wire spool, sometimes preceded by two or three capital letters.