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picohertz

picohertz noun: one trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a hertz.

Noun

picohertz (plural picohertz)

  1. One trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a hertz.
    • A rough billion years ago, at an epoch when little or no magnetized-lobe plasma was in place, small clouds of denser gas from the optical double core reached the galaxy halo boundary, there to expand and radiate picohertz spherical acoustic trains of waves.2002, Alberto C. Sadun, Philip Morrison, “Hercules A (3C 348): Phenomenology of an Unusual Active Galactic Nucleus”, in The Astronomical Journal, volume 123, number 5, →DOI, page 2312

Forms of picohertz

pluralpicohertz

Origin of picohertz

From pico- + hertz.

Questions about picohertz

What does picohertz mean?
Picohertz means one trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a hertz.
What part of speech is picohertz?
Picohertz is a noun.
What is the plural of picohertz?
The plural of picohertz is picohertz.

Words near picohertz in the dictionary

  1. picogramme
  2. picogrammes
  3. picograms
  4. picohenry
  5. picohenrys
  6. picohertz
  7. picoid
  8. picoidean
  9. picoideans
  10. picoideous
  11. picoindentation

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