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PRONUNCIATION OF KILOHERTZ

kilohertz  [ˈkɪləʊˌhɜːts] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KILOHERTZ

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kilohertz is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KILOHERTZ MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hertz

The hertz is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units. It is defined as one cycle per second. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications, such as the frequency of musical tones. The unit is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, who was the first to conclusively prove the existence of electromagnetic waves.

Definition of kilohertz in the English dictionary

The definition of kilohertz in the dictionary is one thousand hertz; one thousand cycles per second kHz.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KILOHERTZ


deserts
dɪˈzɜːts
exahertz
ˌeksəˈhɜːts
fahlerz
ˈfɑːlɜːts
gigahertz
ˈɡɪɡəˌhɜːts
hertz
hɜːts
megahertz
ˈmɛɡəˌhɜːts
nerts
nɜːts
outskirts
ˈaʊtˌskɜːts
petahertz
ˈpetəˌhɜːts
terahertz
ˈtɛrəˌhɜːts
terts
tɜːts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KILOHERTZ

kilobit
kilobyte
kilocalorie
kilocurie
kilocycle
kilogauss
kilogram
kilogram calorie
kilogramme
kilogray
kilojoule
kilolitre
kilometre
kilometric
kilometrical
kilomole
kiloparsec
kilopascal
kilorad
kiloton

WORDS THAT END LIKE KILOHERTZ

Auschwitz
Biarritz
blitz
bortz
Chemnitz
ersatz
fritz
Getz
Horowitz
Katz
lutz
Metz
quartz
rainbow quartz
ritz
rose quartz
smoky quartz
spitz
tz
waltz

Synonyms and antonyms of kilohertz in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kilohertz» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KILOHERTZ

Find out the translation of kilohertz to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kilohertz from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kilohertz» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

千赫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kilohercio
570 millions of speakers

English

kilohertz
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kilohertz
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كيلوهيرتز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

килогерц
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quilohertz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kilohertz
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kilohertz
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kilohertz
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kilohertz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キロヘルツ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

킬로헤르츠
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kilohertz
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kilohertz
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிலோஹெர்ட்ஸ்களுக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किलोहेर्ट्झ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kilohertz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kilohertz
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kiloherc
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кілогерц
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kHz
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

kilohertz
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kilohertz
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kilohertz
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kilohertz
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kilohertz

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOHERTZ»

The term «kilohertz» is regularly used and occupies the 102.503 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KILOHERTZ» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kilohertz

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KILOHERTZ»

Discover the use of kilohertz in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kilohertz and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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2182 Kilohertz: A Novel
Making his living on the tugs and icebreakers of Alaska's frigid North Slope, Henry Seine dreams of life in a warmer climate, but the lure of the sea draws him back to members of his old crew as they join forces to rescue Louis Moneymaker, ...
David Masiel, 2003
2
The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options
Evolutionary pressures arise at the whim of an experimenter's hat such that now every sound of exactly four kilohertz is curiously followed by a nasty little bit of electric current in one of the feet of the poor subject (typically a guinea pig).
Jan Lauwereyns, 2011
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Short-Period Binary Stars: Observations, Analyses, and ...
These results demonstrate conclusively that at least some of the neutron stars that produce kilohertz QPOs have dynamically important magnetic fields and that the spin of the star plays a central role in generating the kilohertz QPO pair.
Eugene F. Milone, Denis A. Leahy, David W. Hobill, 2008
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars
The peaks correspond to the 401 Hz periodic oscillations (“pulsations”) at the star's spin frequency, the lower kilohertz QPO at 499±4 Hz, and the upper kilohertz QPO at 694±4 Hz (from Wijnands et al. 2003). In this pulsar, the separation ...
Altan Baykal, 2006
5
Character Variation and Evolution of Sibling Species in the ...
Such intra-individual variability will be discussed elsewhere. For objective appraisal of advertising songs, eleven measurements were taken directly from spectrograms as follows (see fig. 2): Syllable 7. — (a) mean frequency in kilohertz ; (b) ...
Ned K. Johnson, 1980
6
Underwater Digital Video Made Easy
One important consideration in purchasing music or effects is to make sure that it is at the quality level that you need for the intended use of your program. In most cases, you can purchase music at either 22 Kilohertz, 44 Kilohertz (CD quality ...
Steven M. Barsky, Lance Milbrand, Mark Thurlow, 2005
7
Geniuses
Western Geniuses can perceive sounds from 20 to 25 kilohertz. Eastern Geniuses, on the other hand, can hear sounds from 22 kilohertz to 27 kilohertz. Eastern Geniuses, therefore, experience a kind of deaf zone between 20 and 22 kilohertz.
Neil W. Flanzraich, 2014
8
Molecular and Colloidal Electro-optics
We use the difference D only to visualize the dependence of the negative effect on the field intensity and its parallel increase with the kilohertz-induced dipole. It is seen in Figure 8.12 thatfor the aqueous suspensions of palygorskite, g-Al2O3,  ...
Stoyl P. Stoylov, Maria V. Stoimenova, 2006
9
Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial ...
AM radio channels were originally set to their present width of 10 kilohertz, for example, not so much for technical reasons but because humans have ten fingers: although 1 kilohertz channels would be unworkable and 100 kilohertz channels ...
Thomas Streeter, 1996
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Operators' Manual: Army Model CH-54B Helicopter
Select frequency to which radio is to be tuned: Knob Megacycle select knob One hundred kilohertz select knob Ten kilohertz select knob One kilohertz select knob Action Selects a megahertz point from 2 to 29 MHz, in 1-MHz steps. Selects a ...
‎1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KILOHERTZ»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kilohertz is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sonobond's ultrasonic tube drawing system
... of the power supply and transducer, usually in the range from 15 to 28 kilohertz depending on the size of the rod and the tube being drawn. «Today's Medical Developments, Jul 15»
2
Short Interest Update of Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ …
... in the expanded amplitude modulation (AM) band in Augusta, Gabon. It operates WRDW-AM on 1630 kilohertz in the expanded AM band. «The Daily Rover, Jul 15»
3
UC Berkeley scientists build graphene-based radio that allows for …
Humans can hear from 20 hertz up to 20,000 hertz, while bats hear only in the kilohertz range, from nine to 200 kilohertz. The graphene ... «Techworm, Jul 15»
4
Half-Bridge Gate Driver targets hybrid vehicles.
... efficiency and allows the system to switch at high frequencies in hundreds of kilohertz, allowing for smaller system size and weight. «ThomasNet News, Jul 15»
5
Pacer introduces distance sensor module for applications such as …
Multiple LIDARLite sensors can be used with a single microprocessor in multiplexed form to enable high rep rate multi-Kilohertz scanning and ... «The Engineer, Jul 15»
6
Humans can 'speak' like bats and dolphins
Humans can hear from 20 hertz up to 20,000 hertz, whereas bats hear only in the kilohertz range, from nine to 200 kilohertz. The grapheme ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
7
UC Berkeley researchers develop graphene-based radio that allows …
The test consisted of recording bat chirps — which had a frequency between 100 and 50 kilohertz and a duration of about 4 milliseconds — to ... «Daily Californian, Jul 15»
8
New mobile observatory for aero-fauna studies
Fast sensors and rapid sampling (in the kilohertz range) are key to detecting and classifying atmospheric fauna. Insect wings beat at a variety of ... «SPIE Newsroom, Jul 15»
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These microphones give humans bat-like powers
... hertz up to 20,000 hertz, whereas bats hear only in the kilohertz range, ... microphones operate from well below 20 hertz to over 500 kilohertz. «Futurity: Research News, Jul 15»
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Is Your Brain Really a Computer, or Is It a Quantum Orchestra?
and (2) microtubules have quantum resonances in gigahertz, megahertz and kilohertz frequency ranges (the work of Anirban Bandyopadhyay ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Kilohertz [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/kilohertz>. May 2024 ».
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