megacycle

Questions about megacycle

What does megacycle mean?

megacycle means "one million periods per second".

How many syllables are in megacycle?

megacycle has 4 syllables and divides as me-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 megacycle?

Close synonyms include megahertz, MHz, megacycle per second, Mc. 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 megacycle a common word?

megacycle 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.