Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second; it is abbreviated Hz. It is commonly used to specify the frequency of radio waves, and also the clock frequencies in digital computers. For these applications, kilohertz and megahertz are the most commonly used units, derived from
hertz .
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- noun In the
International System of Units , thederived unit offrequency ; one (period or cycle of anyperiodic event) persecond . Symbol:Hz
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)
- noun the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
- noun German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
Etymologies
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Examples
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(A hertz is a unit for measuring frequency at which power is transmitted from a plant to the user.)
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The book briefly vibrates at eighteen hertz, which is the resonant frequency of the human eyeball.
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A newer generation of cellular radio technology, called Personal Communications Services (PCS), operates much like earlier cellular services, but at higher frequencies, the number of times a radio wave oscillates or completes a cycle, which is measured in a unit known as a hertz (Hz).
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A newer generation of cellular radio technology, called Personal Communications Services (PCS), operates much like earlier cellular services, but at higher frequencies, the number of times a radio wave oscillates or completes a cycle, which is measured in a unit known as a hertz (Hz).
Me Pedia 2010
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Its call is at 52 hertz, which is roughly that of New Scientist informs us that blue whales call out at 15-20 hertz.
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• Both acoustical and electromagnetic frequencies are measurable in what are known as hertz or vibrations per second.
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Nowadays, the standard unit of frequency is known as the hertz, abbreviated Hz. Thus, 1 Hz.¼ 1 cps, 10 Hz.¼
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Clock frequency uses "hertz" (Hz) as its base unit.
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Clock frequency uses "hertz" (Hz) as its base unit.
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