hertz
SayHURTS/hɝts/UK/hɜːts/
Pluralhertz, hertzes
- 1The SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle of a repeating event per second.
The pendulum swung at one hertz, completing a single arc every second.
Household electricity in North America alternates at sixty hertz.
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Origin
Named after the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894).