Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic flux density, equal to one maxwell per square centimeter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A unit used to measure the intensity of a magnetic field.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) The C.G.S. unit of density of magnetic field, equal to a field of one line of force per square centimeter, being thus adopted as an international unit at Paris in 1900; sometimes used as a unit of intensity of magnetic field. It was previously suggested as a unit of magnetomotive force.
- noun Karl F. Gauss, a German mathematician.
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- noun The unit of
magnetic field strength incgs systems of units, equal to 0.0001tesla .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter
- noun German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
Etymologies
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Examples
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You have to imagine the flash as a kind of gauss curve ... when it's not synced you see only up to 10% of power before the curtain is closed again.
Strobist 2010
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Even before the smoke cleared, the first few rounds of gauss rifle fire came through the blown-open doors, spraying down the contents of the room.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Even before the smoke cleared, the first few rounds of gauss rifle fire came through the blown-open doors, spraying down the contents of the room.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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By convention, these MASIS driven ships have a 3 mega-gauss “South Pole” electromagnet plate at their stern, and a similar “North Pole” in the bow.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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I've been told by several people privy to Russian space primate studies that indicate that without at least 1/4 gee and 0.2 gauss magnetic field levels, the human body will NOT survive more than a year and that human conception may be impossible without these minimum stimuli.
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By convention, these MASIS driven ships have a 3 mega-gauss “South Pole” electromagnet plate at their stern, and a similar “North Pole” in the bow.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Worst thing is, the habitat module took a direct hit from a gauss grenade.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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She had to wear mostly his clothes, since hers had been destroyed by the gauss grenade.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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You could have a 100 ton tumbling mass with a low overall gauss field associated with it, If you placed a small mass but ultra strong magnetic field generator near it, the more massive objet will experience all the stress involved and align itself to the stronger field.
Asteroid Capture into Earth Orbit Stephen D. Covey 2010
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To be sure, the magnetic fields in the stars are very much weaker than the 10,000 gauss of our experiment the sun's general field is estimated at between 1 and 25 gauss.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009
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