Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gauss

2 senses of gauss

Sense 1
gauss -- (a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter)
       => flux density unit -- (a measure of the amount of flux per unit of cross sectional area)

Sense 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))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)