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Noun hertz has 3 senses
- Hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle - the unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second
--1 is a kind of rate
--1 is a part of kilohertz, kHz, kilocycle per second, kilocycle, kc
- Hertz, Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz - German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
--2 is a kind of physicist
- Hertz, Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz - German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)
--3 is a kind of nuclear physicist
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