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Degaussing

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v. Present participle of degauss.

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

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

Word Usage

"Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

demagnetization demagnetisation

Verb Stem

degauss

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