Crossword clues for degauss
The Collaborative International Dictionary
degauss \de*gauss"\ (d[-e]*gous"), n.
To make a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by applying an opposing magnetic field.
To remove irregular magnetization in (the electron gun of a cathode-ray tube); -- used to improve picture quality, especially in computer monitors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"de-magnetize," originally especially of ships as a defense against magnetic mines, 1940, from German scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), a pioneer in the study of magnetics.
Wiktionary
vb. To reduce or eliminate a magnetic field, especially from the hull of a ship, or from a computer monitor
WordNet
v. make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of); "demagnetize the iron shavings"; "they degaussed the ship" [syn: demagnetize, demagnetise] [ant: magnetize, magnetize]
Usage examples of "degauss".
The operation was so inside and covert that most of the tapes were degaussed by CIA before the Mother Company began requiring them to give dupes of everything to Fat Boy.
His logic center knew the assertion to be groundless, but if it was only a ghost loop, why did it persist even after he degaussed his circuits?
But only to be reassembled after each calamity, defragged and degaussed, bathed in oil - a droid's bacta tank - and polished back to his auric splendor.
But only to be reassembled after each calamity, defragged and degaussed, bathed in oil—a droid’s bacta tank—and polished back to his auric splendor.
He moved to the segment of the console marked Degaussing, and pressed the stand-by button.
He knew as well as Morton that the special degaussing gear they carried would heat up the hull in a matter of minutes—Crane had once seen steam forming and bubbling up past the herculite nose, on a test—and make them a perfect target for an infrared detecting missile.
He got the best ordnance maps of the area that he could find, appointed as a volunteer the stupidest-looking Pfc he could find, and spent a long day of his furlough time out on the range, carefully zigzagging the slope and checking the readings off on his map until he located the centre of the degaussing effect.
It was the degaussing generator, awaiting only his dissection and analysis.
Some he could identify at least tentatively as air-circulation tunnels, engine rooms, repair shops, switching nodes, degaussing zones, and the like.
However, my surface shielding and hull degaussing fields reduce my magnetic signature to very near background levels, at least on this world.
As he'd thought, he had carefully degaussed the magnetometer, checked for residual magnetism, and recorded it carefully in the notebook.