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GIGAHERTZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gigahertz mean? 

GIGAHERTZ (noun)
  The noun GIGAHERTZ has 1 sense:

1. 1,000,000,000 periods per secondplay

  Familiarity information: GIGAHERTZ used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GIGAHERTZ (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

1,000,000,000 periods per second

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Gc; GHz; gigacycle; gigacycle per second; gigahertz

Hypernyms ("gigahertz" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)


 Context examples 


They were recorded in the megahertz as well as gigahertz range, which is what you can find with terrestrial lightning emissions.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)



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