Hertz
/hɝts/
"Hertz" in a Sentence (3 examples)
Hertz and Avis are head to head competitors in the car rental business.
The standard pitch A is used as referential pitch for tuning most of all instruments and is set to 440 Hertz.
Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.