gauss (n.)

  1. a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter

  2. German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)

    [ Syn: gauss , karl gauss , karl friedrich gauss ]

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