Crossword clues for degaussing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
degaussing \degaussing\ n. the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of degauss English)
WordNet
n. the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field
Wikipedia
Degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field. It is named after the gauss, a unit of magnetism, which in turn was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. Due to magnetic hysteresis, it is generally not possible to reduce a magnetic field completely to zero, so degaussing typically induces a very small "known" field referred to as bias. Degaussing was originally applied to reduce ships' magnetic signatures during World War II. Degaussing is also used to reduce magnetic fields in cathode ray tube monitors and to destroy data held on magnetic storage.
Usage examples of "degaussing".
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.