cps
19
8.0
- noun
- Archaic
:
hercio
- In the lab, the technician noted that the generator produced a frequency of 60 cps during the test.
- CPS workers
- CPS office
- CPS systems
Examples
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The sound frequency was measured in cps, indicating how many cycles per second the wave completed.
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The unit of measurement for the oscillation was expressed in cps, showing the number of cycles achieved each second.
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Briefly, the CPS is a large, federally funded household survey that uses a monthly multistage area probability sample.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
7
3.7
A measure of how many times something repeats each second
5
4.8
A unit for measuring how many times a sound or light wave repeats each second
2
4.1
A unit for frequency equal to one complete cycle in one second
A unit that measures how many times something repeats each second
Surface Forms
Morphology
cps = c + p + s
The form is an initialism whose letters do not transparently convey the meaning 'cycles per second' without knowing the expansion.
Etymology
Cps stands for cycles 'per' second, a simple way to say how many complete repeats happen in one second, and it was the old name for 'hertz'.