Kilohertz (Noun)
Meaning
One thousand periods per second.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The radio station broadcast at a frequency of one hundred kilohertz.
- The engineer adjusted the oscillator to produce a signal at several megahertz, but her customer asked her to reduce it to a few kilohertz.
- The humming noise in the office was caused by an electrical circuit operating at sixty kilohertz.
- The extremely precise equipment in the laboratory measured frequencies down to a single kilohertz.
- Musicians who composed therapeutic music required instruments able to produce pure frequencies much higher than one kilohertz.