megahertz
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əˌhɜrts noun, plural meg·a·hertz, meg·a·hertz·es. Electricity.
a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz
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| —n , pl -hertz | |
| MHz, Former name: megacycle one million hertz; one million cycles per second | |
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Megahertz
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megahertz meg·a·hertz (měg'ə-hûrts')
n.
Abbr. MHz
One million cycles per second. Used especially as a radio frequency unit. Also called megacycle.
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Science Dictionary
| megahertz (měg'ə-hûrts') Pronunciation Key
A unit of frequency equal to one million cycles per second, or one million hertz. |
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Cultural Dictionary
megahertz definition
One million cycles per second. Often used to indicate computer processing speed.
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MegaHertz definition
(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)
Example sentences
But electrical signaling degrades beyond tens of megahertz.
In the old days, the goal was to squeeze more megahertz out of the pipeline.
Today it is minds, not megahertz, that are the scarce commodity.
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