How to Use hertz in a Sentence

hertz

noun

• Everything’s got to be on that 60 hertz in the US, 50 hertz in other places.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2024
• Some brain waves referred to as high-gamma have been clocked up to 100 hertz.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
• The bass notes are probably around 50 or 60 hertz, the lower notes on a pipe organ.
  — Helen Scales, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• The male, being smaller, hums in flight at the higher frequency of 600 hertz.
  — Dava Sobel, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2010
• Despite its screen staying locked to 60 hertz, scrolling with the Pixel Tablet is snappy.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
• These range from about one cycle per second (1 hertz) down to a fraction of a cycle per second.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2023
• Frequency is measured in hertz (Hz), or the number of sound waves per second.
  — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
• 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
• The female range is considered anything above 160 hertz.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Most people wouldn’t be able to discern such microtonal shifts up or down 8 hertz.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Will that be enough to draw people toward these high-hertz peripherals?
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2021
• William Jason Raynovich has returned for residencies four times to perfect the instrument, right down to the hertz.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• On a monitor, hertz (Hz) refers to how many times per second the display refreshes itself.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The heartbeat of the grid — measured in hertz — also fell perilously low, according to the grid operator.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Several excesses seem to cluster around a value of 10 hertz per kilogram of detector mass.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
• One set might be operating in unison at 10 hertz, while another might synchronize at 30 hertz.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 11 May 2021
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024