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The pitch of screw of a screw gauge that advances 5 mm for 5 complete rotations of its head is 1mm.

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Pitch of the screw gauge is a measure of how much the screw gauge moves when for 1 complete rotation of circular scale.
The screw gauge advances $5 m m$ for $5$ complete rotation of its head.
So, pitch of screw gauge is $P = \frac{5 m m}{5} = 1 m m$

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