gigahertz
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əˌhɜrts, ˈdʒɪg-
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| —n , pl -hertz | |
| GHz a unit of frequency equal to 109 hertz | |
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Gigahertz
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| gigahertz (gĭg'ə-hûrtz') Pronunciation Key
A unit of frequency equal to one billion (109) hertz. |
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Computing Dictionary
GigaHertz definition
unit(GHz) Billions of cycles per second.
The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors.
(2001-05-14)
Example sentences
In high-energy accelerators, switching the voltage happens several billion times per second, or gigahertz frequencies.
Currently, the fastest transistors--found in telecommunication technology--are clocked at a couple hundred gigahertz.
Instead, it's the gigahertz that are hot in a thriller that treats technology as its biggest turn-on.
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