cycle per second

Questions about cycle per second

What does cycle per second mean?

cycle per second means "the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)".

What is another word for cycle per second?

Close synonyms include hertz, Hz, cycles/second, cps, cycle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cycle per second a common word?

cycle per second is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cycle per second come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.