# hertz

Pronunciation: say "HURTS" US /hɝts/, UK /hɜːts/

## Noun

1. The SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle of a repeating event per second.
   - Simple: A unit that measures how many times something happens each second.
   - _The pendulum swung at one hertz, completing a single arc every second._
   - _Household electricity in North America alternates at sixty hertz._

## Origin

Named after the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894).

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