megahertz
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈmɛɡəˌhɜrts/
- Specialized
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megaherzio
- Built in Jerusalem, its processing speed was 33 megahertz.
- frequency of megahertz
- few megahertz
But when you cool it with a better solution, suddenly you get more more sort of megahertz out of the clock.
- But when you cool it with a better solution, suddenly you get more more sort of megahertz out of the clock.
Examples
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In fact, the real shift was of the order of megahertz.
Academic text (1996) -
I heard this voice saying, go and check different frequencies because we were trying on 15 and 20 megahertz.
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Still ten megahertz, maybe a little more.
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It's up at 60 megahertz almost, we're hoping for that.
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If it went away, six megahertz of spectrum could be authorized in Greater Boston.
Blog text (18) -
Switch your radio to 121.5 megahertz.
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Ready to broadcast at 577 megahertz.
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Lamb measured it to be 1000 megahertz, with an uncertainty of a few percent.
Academic text (2005) -
Cell phones, on the other hand, use a frequency band starting at 824 megahertz and ending at 894 megahertz.
Blog text (31) -
You can find the emergency broadcast on a frequency of 121.5 megahertz.
Synonyms
10
3.9
A unit of frequency equal to one million cycles per second
1
9.8
A unit for measuring radio frequency equal to one million cycles per second used in older radios
A unit equal to one million cycles per second for measuring radio frequencies
A unit of frequency meaning one million cycles in one second
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Etymology
Megahertz breaks into mega- meaning 'million', as in megabyte, and hertz, named after the scientist Heinrich Hertz. So, megahertz means 'million cycles per second', which is why we use it to talk about radio frequencies and computer speed.