Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index American wire gauge (AWG) is a way of specifying wire sizes, where each gauge represents a different wire diameter. It was originally applied to non-ferrous, conducting wire, but lately is commonly used to specify body piercing jewelry sizes in the United States. In common with many non-metric gauging systems, the measurement involved (wire diameter in this case) decreases with increasing gauge number. Table of AWGs and approximate corresponding sizes AWG Diameter mm Diameter inches 0000000 (6/0) 14.732 0.5800 000000 (5/0) 13.119 0.5165 00000 (4/0) 11.684 0.4600 000 (3/0) 10.404 0.4096 00 (2/0) 9.266 0.3648 0 (1/0) 8.252 0.3249 1 7.348 0.2893 2 6.543 0.2576 3 5.827 0.2294 4 5.189 0.2043 5 4.621 0.1819 6 4.115 0.1620 7 3.665 0.1443 8 3.264 0.1285 9 2.906 0.1144 10 2.588 0.1019 11 2.304 0.0907 12 2.052 0.0808 13 1.829 0.0720 14 1.628 0.0641 15 1.450 0.0571 16 1.291 0.0508 17 1.150 0.0453 18 1.024 0.0403 19 0.9119 0.0359 20 0.8128 0.0320 21 0.7239 0.0285 22 0.6426 0.0253 23 0.5740 0.0226 24 0.5106 0.0201 25 0.4547 0.0179 26 0.4038 0.0159 27 0.3606 0.0142 28 0.3200 0.0126 29 0.2870 0.0113 30 0.2540 0.0100 31 0.2261 0.0089 32 0.2032 0.0080 33 0.1803 0.0071 34 0.1601 0.0063 35 0.1422 0.0056 36 0.1270 0.0050 37 0.1143 0.0045 38 0.1016 0.0040 39 0.0889 0.0035 40 0.0787 0.0031 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.