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gigahertz

 

Definitions from WordNet

Noun gigahertz has 1 sense
  1. gigahertz, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigacycle, Gc - 1,000,000,000 periods per second
    --1 is a kind of rate

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Gigahertz

Part of speech: noun

Sense: a unit of frequency equal to one billion cycles per second.

Examples:

  1. My computer processor runs at a speed of 3 gigahertz.
  2. The new smartphone boasts a powerful processor clocked at 2.5 gigahertz.

Part of speech: adjective

Sense: describing something that has a frequency of one billion hertz.

Examples:

  1. This gigahertz signal is used to transmit data over long distances.
  2. The satellite uses a gigahertz frequency for accurate weather forecasting.

Part of speech: adverb

Sense: describing an action performed at a speed of one billion cycles per second.

Example:

  1. The computer processor operates gigahertz fast, delivering lightning-fast performance.

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