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  • adjective mathematics Of or pertaining to Heinrich Hertz and his work.

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Hertz +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • I must assume that my readers are familiar with the receiving apparatus of wireless telegraphy, which must be "tuned" by the oper-ator until its own vibratory quality is in exact harmony with the vibrations -- the extremely rapid impacts -- of those short electric wave-lengths we call Hertzian, and which carry the wireless messages.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • I must assume that my readers are familiar with the receiving apparatus of wireless telegraphy, which must be "tuned" by the operator until its own vibratory quality is in exact harmony with the vibrations -- the extremely rapid impacts -- of those short electric wavelengths we call Hertzian, and which carry the wireless messages.

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • “tuned” by the operator until its own vibratory quality is in exact harmony with the vibrations — the extremely rapid impacts — of those short electric wavelengths we call Hertzian, and which carry the wireless messages.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Engrossed as he was with the transmission of substantial amounts of power, however, he almost perversely rejected the notion of transmission by Hertzian waves, which he considered to be wasteful of energy.

    Tesla, Nikola 2008

  • In other words the TSJ knew quite well that it could not close RCTV and diligently it has paved the way through indirect means for the government seizure not only of the Hertzian range of RCTV, but also of its properties in transmission equipment and the land where it is placed and perhaps even the studios?

    The RCTV closing: the teachings on Venezuelan society 2007

  • I do not care about what comes next on the #2 Hertzian wavelengths: as soon as darkness falls on RCTV I will turn off the TV and go to bed.

    Antes que anochezca: waiting for the night in Venezuela 2007

  • Guglielmo Marconi experimented in the 1890s with the newly discovered Hertzian waves.

    The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

  • For more than a week, the man's friends had known that Jake's yellow-haired wife was living in Delos with a man from the short-grass country -- it was common gossip among the train-men on the division, and it flowed into the repair shops as naturally as Hertzian waves agitate the antennæ of a wireless station.

    The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas 1996

  • When he speaks of tuning his apparatus until Hertzian radiations have been eliminated, he is referring to using ELF vibrations: "... the Hertzian effect has gradually been reduced through the lowering of frequency."

    Chapter 6 1990

  • To this day, however, there exists a confusion amongst researchers, experimentalists, popular authors and laymen as to the meaning of non-Hertzian waves and the method Dr. Tesla was promoting for the wireless transmission of power.

    Chapter 6 1990

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