hertz

noun/hɜrts/

Frequency rank: #12,267 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second, used to measure sound, radio waves, and other periodic phenomena.

Illustration for the English word “hertz”

Example sentence

The radio station broadcasts at a frequency of 101 million hertz.

Synonyms & related words

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