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• gilbert
  gilbert

  noun

  the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetomotive force, equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns. Gi
• Gilbert
  Gilbert

  noun

  Cass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect noted for grand Beaux-Arts public buildings, including the U.S. Supreme Court Building, and for influential skyscraper designs.

gilbert

¹ American  

[gil-bert] / ˈgɪl bərt /

noun

Electricity.

1. the centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetomotive force, equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns. Gi

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Gilbert ² American  

[gil-bert] / ˈgɪl bərt /

noun

1. Cass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect noted for grand Beaux-Arts public buildings, including the U.S. Supreme Court Building, and for influential skyscraper designs.

2. Henry Franklin Belknap 1868–1928, U.S. composer noted as a collector and preservationist of American folk music, especially African American songs.

3. Sir Humphrey, 1537?–83, English soldier, navigator, and colonizer in America: half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh.

4. John John Cecil Pringle, 1897?–1936, U.S. actor: a major star of silent films, known as “the Great Lover.”

5. Walter, born 1932, U.S. biochemist and molecular biologist: shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980.

6. William, 1544?–1603, English physician and physicist: pioneer experimenter in magnetism and electricity.

7. Sir William Schwenck W. S., 1836–1911, English dramatist, librettist, and poet: collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan.

8. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “pledge” and “bright.”

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Gilbert ¹ British  

/ ˈɡɪlbət /

noun

1. Grove Karl. 1843–1918, US geologist who pioneered the study of river development and valley erosion

2. Sir Humphrey. ?1539–83, English navigator: founded the colony at St John's, Newfoundland (1583)

3. William. 1540–1603, English physician and physicist, noted for his study of terrestrial magnetism in De Magnete (1600)

4. Sir W ( illiam ) S ( chwenck ). 1836–1911, English dramatist, humorist, and librettist. He collaborated (1871–96) with Arthur Sullivan on the famous series of comic operettas, including The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Iolanthe (1882), and The Mikado (1885)

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gilbert ² British  

/ ˈɡɪlbət /

noun

1. Symbols: Gb, Gi. a unit of magnetomotive force; the magnetomotive force resulting from the passage of 4π abamperes through one turn of a coil. 1 gilbert is equivalent to 10/ 4 π = 0.795 775 ampere-turn

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Gilbert ¹ Scientific  

/ gĭl′bərt /

1. American biologist who, building upon the work of Frederick Sanger, formulated a method for determining the sequence of bases in DNA that made it possible to manufacture genetic materials in the laboratory. For this work he shared with Sanger and American biologist Paul Berg the 1980 Nobel Prize for chemistry.

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Gilbert ² Scientific  

1. English court physician and physicist whose book De Magnete (1600) was the first comprehensive scientific work published in England. Gilbert demonstrated that the Earth itself is a magnet, with lines of force running between the North and South Poles. He theorized that magnetism and electricity were two types of a single force and was the first to use the words electricity and magnetic pole.

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Etymology

Origin of gilbert

First recorded in 1890–95; named after William Gilbert

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gilbert Gilbert

Frontispiece portrait || p. i. title william gilbert | of colchester, | physician of London, | on the | Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, | and on | the great magnet the earth.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

THE END. gilbert and rivington, printers, st. john’s square, london.

From Some Remains (hitherto unpublished) of Joseph Butler, LL.D. by Edward Steere

The allegations have also placed Busfield’s marriage to “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert under public scrutiny.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Gilbert, who married Busfield in 2013, has steadfastly defended her husband.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Growing up during the 1960s, when boys commonly wore their hair long, Gilbert could cover the area where his ear should have been.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mr. Gilbert recounts how he and another colleague at the production company struggled to revise Messrs. David and Seinfeld’s pilot script, a contentious process that satisfied no one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

A Mrs. Gilbert, not Gilbreth, had had the baby boy.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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