gavotte
- n an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- n music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
gauntlet
- n to offer or accept a challenge
threw down the gauntlet
took up the gauntlet - n a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- n a glove with long sleeve
- n a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
gauntness
- n extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
gauntry
- n a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
gauri
- n in Hinduism, goddess of purity and posterity and a benevolent aspect of Devi; the `brilliant'
gauss
- n a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter
- n German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
gaussian curve
- n a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution
gaussian distribution
- n a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance