"gauss" in the noun sense
1. gauss
a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter
2. Gauss, Karl Gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
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