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gilbert   (TTS Sound)

The noun gilbert has 5 senses

• gilbert, Gb, Gi -- (a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns)


• Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert -- (a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911))


• Gilbert, William Gilbert -- (English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603))


• Gilbert, Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Gilbert -- (English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583))


• Gilbert, Cass Gilbert -- (United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934))