Gauges. This is a word that is incorrectly used by many people to describe the jewelry worn in stretched earlobe piercings. The Gauge system is actually a system of measurement, initially created to measure the thickness of wire and other cylindrical objects.
What is calibration and what is its importance? Calibration is defined as an association between measurements â one of a scale or accuracy made or set with one piece of equipment and another measurement made in as similar a way as possible with a second piece of equipment.
1 Calibrate  an operation that is typically performed by the manufacturer or by a qualified lab. 2  Verify - an accuracy check performed by the user using known reference standards.  Adjust - align the gauges thickness readings to match those of a known sample.