Definitions for gauss

Overview of noun gauss

The noun gauss has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) 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))