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The gauge of a piece of wire is a dimension of its width (diameter). Gauge is typically abbreviated as "ga", as a result 20 gauge = 20ga. There are two predominant gauge constructions used to figure out wire dimensions for crafters and artisans. American Wire Gauge is normally (but now no longer always) the way jewelry wire is measured in the United States and Canada. Standard Wire Gauge (SWG) is frequently (but no longer always) the dimension system used in Great Britain. Most distinctive European worldwide places measure wire dimensions in millimeters.
Gauge numbers work the opposite of how you would expect. The giant the gauge, the smaller the wire's diameter. This is due to the truth the numbers have been in the establishing determined from how many cases a piece of wire had to omit by using a draw plate formerly than it used to be executed being sized. The higher situations via the plate, the thinner the wire.