American Shani Davis celebrates after defending his Olympic title in the men's 1,000-meter speedskating. Jamie Squire/Getty Images When he won this race four years ago, Davis became the first African-American athlete to win an individual gold at the Winter Games.
What is Gauss? Gauss is a unit of measurement used to describe both the coercivity of a magnet and its saturation magnetization. Basically, it describes how strong the magnetic fields are extending from the magnet and how strong of a magnetic field it would take to de-magnetize the magnet. The name comes from the mathematician physicist Carl Freidrich Gauss.
gauss. n, pl gauss. 1. (Units) the cgs unit of magnetic flux density; the flux density that will induce an emf of 1 abvolt (10 -8 volt) per centimetre in a wire moving across the field at a velocity of 1 centimetre per second.1 gauss is equivalent to 10 -4 tesla.oun. 1. gauss-a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter. flux density unit-a measure of the amount of flux per unit of cross sectional area.