Definitions for hertz



Overview of noun hertz

The noun hertz has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle

(the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second)

2. Hertz, Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz

(German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894))

3. 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))

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