gauss

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Definition

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)

Named for Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist.

"Bradley & Gauss are my brokers. — Desert Conquest; or, Precious Waters, A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
#Gasch, Marie Manning.# See #Manning, Marie.# #Gauss, Marianne.# (See 1915.) (H.) **Justice. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The instantaneous release of energy creates a magnetic field of millions of gauss." — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau

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