Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic flux density, equal to one maxwell per square centimeter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A unit used to measure the intensity of a magnetic field. It is the intensity produced by a magnetic pole of unit strength (sometimes called a weber) at a distance of one centimeter.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. Karl F. Gauss, a German mathematician.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter
- n. German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
Etymologies
- After Karl Friedrich Gauss.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Worst thing is, the habitat module took a direct hit from a gauss grenade.”
“She had to wear mostly his clothes, since hers had been destroyed by the gauss grenade.”
“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.”
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“If you tap the side of a vessel containing a pool of mercury, the surface quakes and ripples as if it were alive: We found that when we placed such a pool in a strong magnetic field of 10,000 gauss, its behavior instantly changed.”
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
“The claim is that it's 3,500 gauss neodymium magnetic under the jilbab can maintain the positive and negative ionic balance like yin and yang.”
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Gauss, Karl Friedrich 1777-1855. German mathematician and astronomer known for his contributions to algebra, differential geometry, probability theory, and number theory."
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