How to Use hertz in a Sentence
hertz
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Everything’s got to be on that 60 hertz in the US, 50 hertz in other places.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2024
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Some brain waves referred to as high-gamma have been clocked up to 100 hertz.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
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The bass notes are probably around 50 or 60 hertz, the lower notes on a pipe organ.
—Helen Scales, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
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The male, being smaller, hums in flight at the higher frequency of 600 hertz.
—Dava Sobel, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2010
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Despite its screen staying locked to 60 hertz, scrolling with the Pixel Tablet is snappy.
—Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
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These range from about one cycle per second (1 hertz) down to a fraction of a cycle per second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2023
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Frequency is measured in hertz (Hz), or the number of sound waves per second.
—Ben Finio, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
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Hamilton took one for a spin down the ice, and the data was instantaneous — line graphs along with a slew of numbers that showed his force in pounds and his stroke rate in hertz.
—Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
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The female range is considered anything above 160 hertz.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
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At that point, the gravitational waves reach a frequency of 10 hertz, or cycles per second, the low end of its range.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2016
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Most people wouldn’t be able to discern such microtonal shifts up or down 8 hertz.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
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The generation outages were causing frequency to fall — as much as 0.5 hertz in a half-hour.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2021
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Will that be enough to draw people toward these high-hertz peripherals?
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2021
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William Jason Raynovich has returned for residencies four times to perfect the instrument, right down to the hertz.
—Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
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As the object got closer, the snake jumped from a low-frequency rattle of around 40 hertz to one closer to 70 hertz, according to Science’s Rachel Fritts.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2021
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As the object got closer, the snake jumped from a low-frequency rattle of around 40 hertz to one closer to 70 hertz, according to Science’s Rachel Fritts.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2021
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On a monitor, hertz (Hz) refers to how many times per second the display refreshes itself.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
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But one of its most iconic sounds was added in post-production: the 1000 hertz censor bleep, which became more prevalent as the behavior on the show grew more profane.
—Matthew Jordan, Fortune, 2 May 2023
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The blinking lights, which run at 40 hertz, or 40 times a second, are less reminiscent of a strobe in a club, and more like the twinkling of stars, says Li-Huei Tsai, author of the study, which appeared in Nature.
—Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
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Now our hope is that second-wave AIs can learn to predict the spectrum environment with enough precision to not let a single hertz go to waste.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2019
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The heartbeat of the grid — measured in hertz — also fell perilously low, according to the grid operator.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
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Power grids are designed to operate at a certain frequency; European grids run at 50 hertz while in the US it’s 60 hertz.
—Matt Reynolds, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
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As Reineke stood confidently atop the platform using a rubber mallet and a lathed mulberry branch to find the perfect hertz, Raynovich's eyes were like stars.
—Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
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With this method, the researchers were able to produce purring sounds at frequencies between 25 and 30 hertz—without any input from the cat’s brain, and without any muscle contractions.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
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Someone with a grating voice is likely to have strong overtones in the range that humans are particularly sensitive to, around 3,000 hertz.
—Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
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Gamma waves are the shortest and fastest of the brainwave frequencies, operating between 30 and 80 hertz, or cycles per second.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
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Several excesses seem to cluster around a value of 10 hertz per kilogram of detector mass.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
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One set might be operating in unison at 10 hertz, while another might synchronize at 30 hertz.
—Max G. Levy, Wired, 11 May 2021
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Here’s the spectrogram for the yanny/laurel recording: Higher frequencies (up to 5,000 hertz, or waves per second) appear toward the top, and lower ones (down to zero) toward the bottom.
—Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
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This sound is likely infrasound, a category of sounds lower than 20 hertz that are inaudible to humans.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
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