cycles/second

Questions about cycles/second

What does cycles/second mean?

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

How many syllables are in cycles/second?

cycles/second has 4 syllables: cy-cles/-se-cond. The stress falls on "cles/".

What is another word for cycles/second?

Close synonyms include hertz, Hz, cycle per 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 cycles/second a common word?

cycles/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.