HERTZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hertz mean? 

• HERTZ (noun)
  The noun HERTZ has 3 senses:

1. the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

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

3. German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

  Familiarity information: HERTZ used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERTZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

cps; cycle; cycle per second; cycles/second; hertz; Hz

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

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

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

kc; kHz; kilocycle; kilocycle per second; kilohertz (one thousand periods per second)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Heinrich Hertz; Heinrich Rudolph Hertz; Hertz

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Derivation:

Hertzian (of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work)

Sense 3

Meaning:

German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gustav Hertz; Gustav Ludwig Hertz; Hertz

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

 Context examples 

The hearing loss is often in the frequency range 4000-6000 hertz.

(Noise Induced Hearing Loss, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The SI derived unit of frequency; equal to one million oscillations per second or to 10E6 hertz.

(Megahertz, NCI Thesaurus)

Hearing loss in frequencies above 1000 hertz.

(High Frequency Hearing Loss, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

"TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars," said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)

They found that mums and babies tend to synchronise their brain waves – an effect known as interpersonal neural connectivity - particularly in the frequency of 6-9 hertz, the infant alpha range.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)