Definitions for Hertz

Hertz hertz

Spelling: [hurts]
IPA: /hɜrts/

Hertz is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Hertz (ehrtz).

Definitions for Hertz

noun

  1. the standard unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one cycle per second. Abbreviation: Hz.
  2. Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
  3. Heinrich Rudolph [hahyn-rikh roo-dawlf] /ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1857–94, German physicist.

Origin of Hertz

First recorded in 1925-30; named after H. R. Hertz

Examples for Hertz

He is an official, the military head of the town, known as Captain hertz.

On this day the entry which we selected was one of Durnell & hertz's string.

The experiments of hertz are, in fact, the apotheosis of Maxwell's theory.

There was a precedent for estimating its value; but of that Mr. hertz was ignorant.

There is a pro version that costs $49 per year and comes with hertz Gold and Regus membership.

After all our study, as Dr. hertz insists, we have as yet no evidence that poisons are absorbed.

It was at this time, and in Rome, that my first meeting with hertz took place.

The former raised his hand, and hertz rode forward and saluted.

Under a lowering sky, the entourage crowds into two hertz station wagons for the sixty mile drive to Las Cruces.

Microsoft-Yahoo becomes a genuine Pepsi to Google's Coke, Burger King to their McDonalds, Avis to their hertz.

Word Value for Hertz
Scrable

17

Words with friends

16

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