hertz

Noun

• German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

• German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

• the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Hertz , Gustav Hertz , Gustav Ludwig Hertz , Heinrich Hertz , Heinrich Rudolph Hertz , Hz , cycle per second , cycles/second , cps , cycle