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DEGAUSSING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb degauss

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