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Audio Help [meg-uh-hurts] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -hertz, -hertz·es. Electricity.
| a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz |
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n. Abbr. MHz One million cycles per second. Used especially as a radio-frequency unit. Also called megacycle. |
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| megahertz | |
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| one million periods per second |
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| megahertz
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A unit of frequency equal to one million cycles per second, or one million hertz. |
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megahertz
One million cycles per second. Often used to indicate computer processing speed.
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MegaHertz
(MHz) Millions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors.
(1994-10-27)
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