What is "gent"

Gent \Gent\, a. [OF. gent, fr. L. genitus born, or (less prob.) fr. gentilis. See Genteel.]

1. Gentle; noble; of gentle birth. [Obs.]

   All of a knight [who] was fair and gent.
   --Chaucer.

2. Neat; pretty; fine; elegant. [Obs.]
   --Spenser.

   Her body gent and small.
   --Chaucer.

short for gentleman, by 17c. (in early uses it is difficult to distinguish the shortening from the common abbreviation gent.). "Early in the nineteenth century the word was colloquial and slightly jocular; about 1840 its use came to be regarded as a mark of low breeding" [OED].

Etymology 1 n. A gentleman. Etymology 2

a. 1 (context obsolete English) noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful. 2 (context obsolete English) neat; pretty; elegant

1. n. informal abbreviation of `gentleman'

2. a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, lad, fella, blighter, cuss]

3. port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry [syn: Gand, Ghent]

Gent or Gents may refer to:

• Gentleman (shortened form)
• Gents public toilet
• Gent (hyperelastic model), rubber elasticity model
• Gent (magazine), a men's magazine
• Gentamicin, an antibiotic
• Gents (novel), a 1997 novel by Warwick Collins
• The Belgian city of Ghent (in )
• Gents, a dialect of the Dutch language
• Gents, K.A.A. Gent, a football club from Ghent

Gent Magazine was a pornographic magazine published by the Magna Publishing Group, publisher of Swank, Genesis, Velvet and many other popular men’s magazines. It focused on women with large breasts, and is subtitled "Home of the D-Cups."

The ' Gent' hyperelastic material model is a phenomenological model of rubber elasticity that is based on the concept of limiting chain extensibility. In this model, the strain energy density function is designed such that it has a singularity when the first invariant of the left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor reaches a limiting value I.

The strain energy density function for the Gent model is

$$W = -\cfrac{\mu J_m}{2} \ln\left(1 - \cfrac{I_1-3}{J_m}\right)$$
where μ is the shear modulus and J = I − 3.

In the limit where I → ∞, the Gent model reduces to the Neo-Hookean solid model. This can be seen by expressing the Gent model in the form

$$W = \cfrac{\mu}{2x}\ln\left[1 - (I_1-3)x\right] ~;~~ x := \cfrac{1}{J_m}$$
A Taylor series expansion of ln[1 − (I − 3)x] around x = 0 and taking the limit as x → 0 leads to

$$W = \cfrac{\mu}{2} (I_1-3)$$
which is the expression for the strain energy density of a Neo-Hookean solid.

Several compressible versions of the Gent model have been designed. One such model has the form

$$W = -\cfrac{\mu J_m}{2} \ln\left(1 - \cfrac{I_1-3}{J_m}\right) + \cfrac{\kappa}{2}\left(\cfrac{J^2-1}{2} - \ln J\right)^4$$
where $J = \det(\boldsymbol{F})$, κ is the bulk modulus, and $\boldsymbol{F}$ is the deformation gradient.