kilohertz

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A computer that has a clock cycle measured in Kilohertz can emit radio waves in the Kilohertz band.

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

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noun

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

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Core meanings and parts of speech for kilohertz.

noun

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

Example sentences

A computer that has a clock cycle measured in Kilohertz can emit radio waves in the Kilohertz band.

Mel's computer had a clock speed measured in kilohertz and a memory access time measured in milliseconds.

Toothed whales use extremely high frequencies, on the order of 150 kilohertz, for refining spatial resolution from their echoes.

You probably don't have any better information about what the radio station a few kilohertz away will broadcast next, either.

And there are snobs who think that nothing less than several kilohertz is real-time.

I personally doubt PWM is visible at all at high enough speeds (kilohertz+) even in peripheral vision.

Beyond commiserations there isn't much I can say, inside my own kilohertz whine sound bath.

As I recall, it was a radio that was tuned to the Kilohertz band.

That would be nice with 314159 kilohertz of cloud.

If you know how many metres are in a kilometre, you know how many hertz are in a kilohertz - you didn't need to learn anything new.

Only someone looking at the intensity of the thermal radiation coming from the diode at really fast timescales (kilohertz or megahertz) would notice that there was a signal being transmitted.

They typically sample at a very slow repetition rate -- some hundreds of kilohertz, but each sampling aperture can be exceptionally short, allowing to record signals to 100 GHz frequency.

Quote examples

"Frequency domain representation" means when you plot that information, the x-axis is in units of frequency; hertz or kilohertz, usually, for something humans can perceive as sound.

A so-called "millisecond pulsar" would have a possible gravitational wave frequency of one kilohertz and a wavelength of 3 x 10^8 / f meters or 3,000,000 meters (3,000 kilometers).

Should we revert to calling a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi frequency as "2.4 million kHz", because kilohertz is familiar to people working with audio frequencies and AM radio?

To get your longed-for "big, black display" you might need to rewind the vertical deflection coil on a CRT TV tube; magnetic deflection is going to inherently have more difficulty with high frequencies, but it still routinely reached hundreds of kilohertz in mass-market computer monitors.