MEGAHERTZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does megahertz mean? 

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

1. one million periods per second

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGAHERTZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One million periods per second

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Mc; megacycle; megacycle per second; megahertz; MHz

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "megahertz"):

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

 Context examples 

Employs frequencies ranging from 1.6 to 10 megahertz.

(Diagnostic Ultrasound, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

Such dips occur at wavelengths between 65 megahertz (MHz) and 95 MHz, overlapping with some of the most widely used frequencies on the FM radio dial, as well as booming radio waves emanating naturally from the Milky Way galaxy.

(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)

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)