American wire gauge (AWG)
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US standard measure of the diameter of electricity conducting wires. Since it denotes the number of progressively narrower dies through which the wire is pulled through to reach a particular thinness, it is a backward working (retrogressive) numbering scheme: the thicker the wire, the lower the number and vice versa. AWG assigns numbers only to aluminum, copper, and other non-iron or non-steel (non-ferrous) wires.
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