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How to pronounce hertz

IPA transcription: ['hɛɹts]

Pronunciation variants: ['hɛɹts]['hɚts]

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Noun

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

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

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