How to Use megahertz in a Sentence

megahertz

noun
  • The main strength of 11th-gen chips that most will feel is in pure megahertz.
    Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 26 July 2021
  • And the line width of those spins, Awschalom says, is pretty tight, too—just 20 megahertz.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2020
  • James Provost The Flipper is powered by a 32-bit Arm processor core with a top speed of 64 megahertz.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The lowest frequencies measured to date are about 2 megahertz or so, in data from the ’70s.
    Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The current auction, however, is for a total of 3,400 megahertz of spectrum across three bands, the most ever sold at one time.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • But countries like China have had 100 megahertz and more for operators for some time.
    Veta Chan, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Dish holds 93.6 megahertz of spectrum on average nationwide, making the company the fifth-largest holder of broadband airwaves in the U.S.
    Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The other piece of completely unexplored territory is the dark ages, which show up at frequencies of 30 megahertz and below.
    Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Each will contain chips running at 8 megahertz and accelerometers designed to measure movement caused by strong gusts.
    Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
  • Future auctions will turn over the remaining spectrum in years to come, essentially adding new lanes to the information super highway—a few megahertz at a time.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • The other has a rectangular membrane, suitable for megahertz frequencies used for TV and radio.
    Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 22 Aug. 2017
  • These photons started out with short radio wavelengths, but over their more than 13-billion-year journey to Earth, the universe's expansion stretched them out to long wavelengths, or low megahertz frequencies.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 May 2018
  • The bipartisan, bicameral legislation would, among other things, allow up to 200 megahertz of spectrum to be auctioned for mobile broadband.
    Hal Singer, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • With that single-molecule layer, the researchers were able to reach the maximum change in conductivity at a frequency of more than 1 megahertz, several orders of magnitude faster than other heat-management systems.
    IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Lower clock speeds, however, can be mitigated by using each megahertz more efficiently.
    Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 21 Aug. 2019
  • His truck’s main antenna picked up signals from 25 megahertz to 4 gigahertz, while smaller antennas operated as a direction-finding array.
    Stephen Kurczy, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021

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