Definition of "degaussing" []

• Present participle of degauss. (verb)

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• "They let him check the files himself and prove that there was no such Pfc. The "degaussing" effect?"
• "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."
• ""I'll send them an explanation of how to build a degaussing shield to protect their bodies.""