KILOHERTZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilohertz mean? 

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

1. one thousand periods per second

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILOHERTZ (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 ("kilohertz" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "kilohertz"):

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 ("kilohertz" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

But until Juno, all the lightning signals recorded by spacecraft were limited to either visual detections or from the kilohertz range of the radio spectrum, despite a search for signals in the megahertz range.

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