plural hertz
: a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second
—abbreviation Hz
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Theoretically, the top speed for a neuron to feasibly fire and send information to its neighbor is 500 hertz.
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Conor Feehly, Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2025
To read the clock, the operator simply had to check that the two hands were in sync; that would mean the generators were running at precisely 60 hertz.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2024
In this way, our small group of home air conditioners reacted to grid changes the way a power plant would – using more or less energy to balance the grid and keep the frequency near 60 hertz.
—Johanna Mathieu, The Conversation, 11 June 2025
Our neurons, however, have an average firing rate of 4 hertz, 50 to 60 times less than what is optimal for information transmission.
—Conor Feehly, Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2025
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Conor Feehly, Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2025
To read the clock, the operator simply had to check that the two hands were in sync; that would mean the generators were running at precisely 60 hertz.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2024
In this way, our small group of home air conditioners reacted to grid changes the way a power plant would – using more or less energy to balance the grid and keep the frequency near 60 hertz.
—Johanna Mathieu, The Conversation, 11 June 2025
Our neurons, however, have an average firing rate of 4 hertz, 50 to 60 times less than what is optimal for information transmission.
—Conor Feehly, Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2025
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“Hertz.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hertz. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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Heinrich Rudolf 1857–1894 German physicist
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