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DEGAUSSING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does degaussing mean?
• DEGAUSSING (noun)
The noun DEGAUSSING has 1 sense:
1. the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field
Familiarity information: DEGAUSSING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("degaussing" is a kind of...):
demagnetisation; demagnetization (the process of removing magnetization)
Derivation:
degauss (make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of))
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