hertz
noun/hɜrts/
Frequency rank: #12,267 most common English word
Meaning
A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second, used to measure sound, radio waves, and other periodic phenomena.
Example sentence
The radio station broadcasts at a frequency of 101 million hertz.
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