Megacycle (Noun)
Meaning
One million periods per second.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- Radios often operate at frequencies measured in megacycles, equivalent to one million cycles per second.
- The engineer tuned the device to resonate at exactly one megacycle per second to maximize its efficiency.
- A frequency of one point five megacycles per second was chosen for the commercial broadcast to minimize interference.
- The vintage radio station broadcast at six hundred fifty megacycles per second, producing a strong clear signal.
- High-power transmitters often broadcast in frequencies between twenty-one megacycles to seven ten decimal megacycles per second worldwide