d 2 e 1 g 2 a 1 u 1 s 1 s 1
7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of)
originFrom de- + gauss (“unit of magnetic field strength”). A neologism coined by then-Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II.
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