KILOCYCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilocycle mean? 

• KILOCYCLE (noun)
  The noun KILOCYCLE has 1 sense:

1. one thousand periods per second

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILOCYCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One thousand periods per second

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

kc; kHz; kilocycle; kilocycle per second; kilohertz

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "kilocycle"):

cps; cycle; cycle per second; cycles/second; hertz; Hz (the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz))

Holonyms ("kilocycle" is a part of...):

Mc; megacycle; megacycle per second; megahertz; MHz (one million periods per second)