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narrow gauge
1. The smaller distance from each other at which the two rails are laid on some railways, involving a corresponding narrowness of carriage. Freq. attrib. See gauge n. 3.
Formerly applied to what is now the British standard gauge of 4 ft. 8½ in., as opposed to the broad gauge; now confined to gauges less than this, or than some corresponding standard.
1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 256/1 Many who admit the inconvenience of the narrow gauge consider seven feet to be beyond the most advantageous width. 1844Sir D. Gooch Diaries 53 It became a fight between the broad-gauge companies and the narrow-gauge companies. 1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 117 A notable feature in the life of the Crewe works is the narrow-gauge railway... The gauge of this railway is 18 inches.
2. Cinemat. (See quot. 1959.) Cf. gauge, gage n. 1.
1951G. H. Sewell Amateur Film-Making (ed. 2) xii. 115 It is not impossible that one day research will place in the hands of the narrow-gauge worker the means of obtaining fully stereoscopic pictures without undue difficulty. 1953L. J. Wheeler Princ. Cinematogr. x. 283 It is interesting to note that the B.K.S. has officially adopted the term ‘narrow gauge’ [film] in preference to ‘sub-standard’. 1959W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 100/1 Ciné film is designated according to its width, 35 mm. film..being said to be of ‘standard gauge’...the only other professional size of film..is 16 mm. wide and this is termed ‘sub-standard’, or ‘narrow-gauge’. |