Search Result:hertz
KK Pronunciation
〔 hFts 〕
Pronunciation
〔 hәːts 〕
Overview of noun hertz
The noun hertz has 3 senses
- hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle -- (the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second)
- Hertz, Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz -- (German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894))
- Hertz, Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz -- (German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975))