GHZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does GHz mean? 

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

1. 1,000,000,000 periods per second

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GHZ (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 ("GHz" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Breakthrough Listen used instruments at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to observe that location over 5 hours on Saturday, detecting 15 bursts over the entire 4 to 8 GHz frequency band.

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)