How to Use gigahertz in a Sentence

gigahertz

noun

• While not always the case, the higher the gigahertz, the faster the computer processing speed.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
• All 377 lightning discharges recorded in Juno’s first eight flybys struck in the Earth-like megahertz and gigahertz range.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 June 2018
• The company claims the data connection is the first announced worldwide in the 28 gigahertz band using chips that are small enough to be used in smartphones.
  — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The new device operates at speeds up to 40 gigahertz at 20 millikelvin.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
• The radio waves that come from these towers are in the megahertz-to- low-gigahertz range and vary according to which bits of spectrum a carrier has licensed from the FCC.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
• The 64 to 71 gigahertz band can now be used by any carrier, including AT&T, on an unlicensed basis.
  — Paul Barbagallo, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
• That does indeed sound dated compared to the current crop of hypercars, which boast megawatts of hybrid or electric power and gigahertz of processing power to tame it all.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
• In contrast, lightning on Earth can produce gigahertz radio waves, which are millions of times higher in frequency.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
• That band — 24 gigahertz — sits right next to one that federal scientists use to detect water vapor emissions in the atmosphere.
  — Susanne Rust, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• When everyone else is selling gigahertz, Satjiv Chahil, chief marketing officer at Palm, likes to sell glamour.
  — Tom McNichol, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2000
• The Bluetooth’s wavelength, around 2.44 gigahertz, is really crowded especially in the city.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2017
• And so it‘s no surprise that millimeter wave is opening up huge multi-gigabit-per-second data rates, given the bandwidth itself, can approach a gigahertz.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
• Such transmission would nevertheless have been subject to the limitation of the electronic repeaters, likely a few gigahertz at most.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
• The atmosphere blocks frequencies higher than about 10 gigahertz.
  — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
• For its part, China has been encouraging development of 5G and has identified some airwave bands like 3.5 gigahertz for use as a possible global spectrum.
  — Scott Moritz, Bloomberg.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Radar at frequencies higher than the 3 gigahertz used by air-traffic controllers can detect objects even smaller than 1 inch across, provided they are made of a reflective material such as metal.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Wi-Fi receivers typically transmit at about a five gigahertz frequency.
  — Gary Fowler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• The standard covers multiple frequency bands, but the main chunks are low-band and mid-band frequencies below 6 gigahertz, and ultra-wideband or millimeter-wave frequencies above 24 gigahertz.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 14 Oct. 2020
• Current wireless communications can use signals that are as fast as tens of gigahertz; future 6G communications need signals as fast as 1 terahertz.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2023
• But at the frequency used in standard air-traffic radar — about 3 gigahertz — the system can pick up objects as small as 1 inch across, according to Christopher Peters, a Drexel University professor of electrical and computer engineering.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Instead, the team opted for maximum sensitivity and designed their detectors to receive a single frequency: 150 gigahertz.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2014
• Other wireless industry experts cite opportunities above 3.5 gigahertz, where several other countries have marked frequencies for 5G use.
  — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 20 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024