KILOHERTZ

kilohertz, kHz, kilocycle per second, kilocycle, kc

(noun) one thousand periods per second

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

kilohertz (plural kilohertz or kilohertzes)

A unit of frequency equal to one thousand cycles per second; one thousand hertz

Synonyms

• kilocycle

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

15 February 2025

SCRAP

(noun) a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; “she jotted it on a scrap of paper”; “there was not a scrap left”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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