DEGAUSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does degauss mean? 

• DEGAUSS (verb)
  The verb DEGAUSS has 1 sense:

1. make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of)

  Familiarity information: DEGAUSS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEGAUSS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they degauss    ... he / she / it degausses   
Past simple: degaussed   
Past participle: degaussed   
-ing form: degaussing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

degauss; demagnetise; demagnetize

Context example:

they degaussed the ship

Hypernyms (to "degauss" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

degaussing (the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field)