Hertz

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hertz \Hertz\, n. [from the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.]
     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.


     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hertz
       n 1: the unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of
            one second [syn: {Hz}, {cycle per second}, {cycles/second},
             {cps}, {cycle}]
       2: German physicist who was the first to produce
          electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894) [syn: {Heinrich
          Hertz}, {Heinrich Rudolph Hertz}]
       3: German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence
          of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr
          (1887-1975) [syn: {Gustav Hertz}, {Gustav Ludwig Hertz}]