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Noun
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gilbert
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Gb
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Gi
(a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns)
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Gilbert
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William Gilbert
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William S. Gilbert
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William Schwenk Gilbert
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Sir William Gilbert
(a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911))
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(n)
Gilbert
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William Gilbert
(English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603))
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Gilbert
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Humphrey Gilbert
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert
(English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583))
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Gilbert
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Cass Gilbert
(United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934))