"break of gauge" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks of gauge",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "breaks of gauge"
      },
      "expansion": "break of gauge (plural breaks of gauge)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        },
        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "break-of-gauge station"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 May, “Talking of Trains: News in brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 265",
          "text": "The first through consignment ever to travel to Russia by way of the Eastern Region's Harwich-Zeebrugge train ferry - two tons of furniture and other household items - left London early in March on a 1,850-mile journey to Moscow; [...] being transferred to a Russian wagon at the Polish frontier because of the break of gauge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an occurrence where a railway with one track gauge meets another railway of a different gauge, thus requiring transhipment of goods and passengers, or a change of bogies on the train."
      ],
      "id": "en-break_of_gauge-en-noun-l-pZJZud",
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        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "track",
          "track"
        ],
        [
          "gauge",
          "gauge"
        ],
        [
          "transhipment",
          "transhipment"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods"
        ],
        [
          "passenger",
          "passenger"
        ],
        [
          "bogie",
          "bogie"
        ],
        [
          "train",
          "train"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) an occurrence where a railway with one track gauge meets another railway of a different gauge, thus requiring transhipment of goods and passengers, or a change of bogies on the train."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "break-of-gauge"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "break of gauge",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "sporbrudd"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "break of gauge"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "break-of-gauge station"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks of gauge",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "break of gauge (plural breaks of gauge)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 May, “Talking of Trains: News in brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 265",
          "text": "The first through consignment ever to travel to Russia by way of the Eastern Region's Harwich-Zeebrugge train ferry - two tons of furniture and other household items - left London early in March on a 1,850-mile journey to Moscow; [...] being transferred to a Russian wagon at the Polish frontier because of the break of gauge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an occurrence where a railway with one track gauge meets another railway of a different gauge, thus requiring transhipment of goods and passengers, or a change of bogies on the train."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "track",
          "track"
        ],
        [
          "gauge",
          "gauge"
        ],
        [
          "transhipment",
          "transhipment"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods"
        ],
        [
          "passenger",
          "passenger"
        ],
        [
          "bogie",
          "bogie"
        ],
        [
          "train",
          "train"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) an occurrence where a railway with one track gauge meets another railway of a different gauge, thus requiring transhipment of goods and passengers, or a change of bogies on the train."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "break-of-gauge"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "break of gauge",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sporbrudd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "break of gauge"
}