megahertz

[meg-uh-hurts] /ˈmɛg əˌhɜrts/
noun, plural megahertz, megahertzes. Electricity
1.
a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second.
Abbreviation: MHz.
Origin
1940-45; mega- + hertz
Examples from the web for megahertz
  • But electrical signaling degrades beyond tens of megahertz.
  • Today it is minds, not megahertz, that are the scarce commodity.
  • In the old days, the goal was to squeeze more megahertz out of the pipeline.
British Dictionary definitions for megahertz

megahertz

/ˈmɛɡəˌhɜːts/
noun (pl) -hertz
1.
one million hertz; one million cycles per second MHz Former name megacycle
Word Origin and History for megahertz
n.

1941, from mega- + Hertz.

megahertz in Medicine

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.

megahertz in Science
megahertz
  (měg'ə-hûrts')   
A unit of frequency equal to one million cycles per second, or one million hertz.
megahertz in Culture

megahertz definition


One million cycles per second. Often used to indicate computer processing speed.

megahertz in Technology


(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)