name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hertz
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /hɜːts/
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UK: /hɜːs/
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US: /hɝts/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: hurts
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)ts
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 R T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: HH ER1 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cycle per second, cps
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Alternative letter-case form of hertz (“Hz”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nuclear physicist
noun
Meaning 5
German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: physicist
noun
Meaning 6
the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rate
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hertz.
Named after German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894).
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: Hertz — surname
- German: Hertz — surname
- Arabic: هِيرْتِز (hirtiz) — the derived unit of frequency
- Arabic: هِرْتِز (hirtiz) — the derived unit of frequency
- Arabic: هِيرْتْز (hērtz) — the derived unit of frequency
- Arabic: هِرْتْز (hirtz) — the derived unit of frequency
- Armenian: հերց (hercʻ) — the derived unit of frequency
- Belarusian: гэрц (herc) — the derived unit of frequency
- Bulgarian: херц (herc) — the derived unit of frequency
- Burmese: ဟတ်ဇ် (hatj) — the derived unit of frequency
- Chinese Cantonese: 赫茲 /赫兹 (haak1 zi1, hak1 zi1) — the derived unit of frequency
- Chinese Cantonese: 赫 (haak1, hak1) — the derived unit of frequency
- Hakka Chinese: 赫茲 /赫兹 (hér-chṳ̀) — the derived unit of frequency
- Chinese: 赫 (hek) — the derived unit of frequency
- Chinese Mandarin: 赫茲 /赫兹 (hèzī) — the derived unit of frequency
- Chinese Mandarin: 赫 (hè) — the derived unit of frequency
- Czech: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Danish: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Esperanto: herco — the derived unit of frequency
- Finnish: hertsi — the derived unit of frequency
- French: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Georgian: ჰერცი (herci) — the derived unit of frequency
- German: Hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Greek: χερτζ (chertz) — the derived unit of frequency
- Hebrew: הרץ — the derived unit of frequency
- Hindi: हर्ट्ज़ (harṭz) — the derived unit of frequency
- Indonesian: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Italian: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Japanese: ヘルツ (herutsu) — the derived unit of frequency
- Khmer: ហឺត (həɨt) — the derived unit of frequency
- Korean: 헤르츠 (hereucheu) — the derived unit of frequency
- Latvian: hercs — the derived unit of frequency
- Macedonian: херц (herc) — the derived unit of frequency
- Malay: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Persian: هرتز — the derived unit of frequency
- Polish: herc — the derived unit of frequency
- Portuguese: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Russian: герц (gerc) — the derived unit of frequency
- Serbo-Croatian: херц — the derived unit of frequency
- Serbo-Croatian: herc — the derived unit of frequency
- Spanish: hercio — the derived unit of frequency
- Spanish: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Swedish: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Thai: เฮิรตซ์ (hêrt) — the derived unit of frequency
- Thai: เฮิ้ด (hêrt) — the derived unit of frequency
- Ukrainian: герц (herc) — the derived unit of frequency
- Urdu: ہرٹز (harṭz) — the derived unit of frequency
- Vietnamese: hertz — the derived unit of frequency
- Vietnamese: héc — the derived unit of frequency