hertz

¹

[ hurts ]

noun

, plural hertz, hertz·es.

1. the standard unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one cycle per second. : Hz

Hertz

²

[ hurts, hairts; German herts ]

noun

1. Gu·stav [goos, -tahf], 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
2. Hein·rich Ru·dolph [hahyn, -, r, i, kh, , roo, -dawlf], 1857–94, German physicist.

hertz

¹

/ hɜːts /

noun

1. the derived SI unit of frequency; the frequency of a periodic phenomenon that has a periodic time of 1 second; 1 cycle per second Hz

Hertz

²

/ hɛrts; hɜːts /

noun

1. HertzGustav18871975MGermanSCIENCE: physicist Gustav (ˈɡʊstaf). 1887–1975, German atomic physicist. He provided evidence for the quantum theory by his research with Franck on the effects produced by bombarding atoms with electrons: they shared the Nobel prize for physics (1925)
2. HertzHeinrich Rudolph18571894MGermanSCIENCE: physicist Heinrich Rudolph (ˈhainrɪç ˈruːdɔlf). 1857–94, German physicist. He was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially

hertz

/ hûrts /

1. The SI derived unit used to measure the frequency of vibrations and waves, such as sound waves and electromagnetic waves. One hertz is equal to one cycle per second. The hertz is named after German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894).

hertz

1. The international unit of frequency : one cycle per second. The abbreviation for hertz is Hz .

Notes

Household current (see also current ) in the United States is sixty hertz.

Derived Forms

• ˈHertzian, adjective

Other Words From

• Hertz·i·an [hurt, -see-, uh, n, hairt, -], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hertz¹

First recorded in 1925–30; named after H. R. Hertz

Word History and Origins

Origin of hertz¹

C20: named after Heinrich Rudolph Hertz

Example Sentences

There is a pro version that costs $49 per year and comes with Hertz Gold and Regus membership.

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Under a lowering sky, the entourage crowds into two Hertz station wagons for the sixty mile drive to Las Cruces.

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All of the above has been documented in detail by legal expert Eli Hertz.

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Microsoft-Yahoo becomes a genuine Pepsi to Google's Coke, Burger King to their McDonalds, Avis to their Hertz.

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Then I went to a Boston Hertz office and rented a car and drove to Cape Cod for the weekend.

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Hertz, of Berlin, has just published a book which we think can hardly fail of a speedy reproduction in both English and French.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1888 Hertz proved by his experiments that ether waves having the same velocity as light could be produced in this way.

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Now a million per second gives a wave-length somewhere about what Hertz wanted, so he arranged his apparatus as just described.

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Thus Hertz discovered how to make the waves which Clerk-Maxwell had predicted and also how to detect them when made.

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Now several scientific men had suggested, before Hertz's time, that when that occurred something else happened too.

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