plural hertz
: a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second
—abbreviation Hz
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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.
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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
Calling up extra conventional power plants to increase Terna’s ability to ramp generation up and down and thus hold the AC frequency at 50 hertz.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2015
Like Meissner and Krause corpuscles, these sensors are tuned to vibration, but at much higher frequencies — as high as 1,000 hertz.
—Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
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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
Calling up extra conventional power plants to increase Terna’s ability to ramp generation up and down and thus hold the AC frequency at 50 hertz.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2015
Like Meissner and Krause corpuscles, these sensors are tuned to vibration, but at much higher frequencies — as high as 1,000 hertz.
—Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Hertz.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hertz. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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Heinrich Rudolf 1857–1894 German physicist
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