gigacycle

Questions about gigacycle

What does gigacycle mean?

gigacycle means "1,000,000,000 periods per second".

How many syllables are in gigacycle?

gigacycle has 4 syllables and divides as gi-ga-cy-cle under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gigacycle?

Close synonyms include gigahertz, GHz, gigacycle per second, Gc. 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 gigacycle a common word?

gigacycle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.