Meaning & use
Gauss
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A unit of measurement for magnetic flux density in the centimeter-gram-second system.
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The magnet's strength was measured at 500 gauss.
Engineers used a gaussmeter to check the field strength in gauss near the motor.
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Named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, though as a unit of measurement it is written in lowercase.
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