kilocycle per second

1. 1.

   one thousand periods per second

   SynonymskilohertzkHzkilocyclekc

   Broaderrate

   Part ofmegahertz

   Partshertz

Questions about kilocycle per second

What does kilocycle per second mean?

kilocycle per second means "one thousand periods per second".

What is another word for kilocycle per second?

Close synonyms include kilohertz, kHz, kilocycle, kc. 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 kilocycle per second a common word?

kilocycle 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.