How to Use megahertz in a Sentence

megahertz

noun
  • The main strength of 11th-gen chips that most will feel is in pure megahertz.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 26 July 2021
  • And the line width of those spins, Awschalom says, is pretty tight, too—just 20 megahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2020
  • These differences were on the order of femtofarads, and the video signal ran at about 910 megahertz.
    — Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The lowest frequencies measured to date are about 2 megahertz or so, in data from the ’70s.
    — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But countries like China have had 100 megahertz and more for operators for some time.
    — Veta Chan, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Each will contain chips running at 8 megahertz and accelerometers designed to measure movement caused by strong gusts.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
  • The current auction, however, is for a total of 3,400 megahertz of spectrum across three bands, the most ever sold at one time.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2020
  • All 377 lightning discharges recorded in Juno’s first eight flybys struck in the Earth-like megahertz and gigahertz range.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 June 2018
  • Future auctions will turn over the remaining spectrum in years to come, essentially adding new lanes to the information super highway—a few megahertz at a time.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • The other piece of completely unexplored territory is the dark ages, which show up at frequencies of 30 megahertz and below.
    — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Lower clock speeds, however, can be mitigated by using each megahertz more efficiently.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The other has a rectangular membrane, suitable for megahertz frequencies used for TV and radio.
    — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 22 Aug. 2017
  • James Provost The Flipper is powered by a 32-bit Arm processor core with a top speed of 64 megahertz.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
  • As a result, several types of ultrasound probes are needed to image various parts of the body, with frequencies that range from 1 to 10 megahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2024
  • That means scientists need to listen to frequencies well below 50 megahertz—parts of the radio spectrum that are largely blocked by Earth’s ionosphere.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Heavier particles like antiprotons (or calcium ions) prefer much slower megahertz (MHz) fields.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The radio waves that come from these towers are in the megahertz-to- low-gigahertz range and vary according to which bits of spectrum a carrier has licensed from the FCC.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
  • These photons started out with short radio wavelengths, but over their more than 13-billion-year journey to Earth, the universe's expansion stretched them out to long wavelengths, or low megahertz frequencies.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 May 2018
  • This sustained magnetization precession produces frequencies from hundreds of megahertz to several tens of gigahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2017
  • His truck’s main antenna picked up signals from 25 megahertz to 4 gigahertz, while smaller antennas operated as a direction-finding array.
    — Stephen Kurczy, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The bipartisan, bicameral legislation would, among other things, allow up to 200 megahertz of spectrum to be auctioned for mobile broadband.
    — Hal Singer, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • That began to change last year when SpaceX agreed to acquire Echostar’s 65 megahertz of spectrum for $17 billion to help propel Starlink Mobile.
    — Morgan Brennan,harriet Taylor, CNBC, 12 June 2026
  • The protocol also allows channel bandwidths as narrow as 1 megahertz, compared to the 20MHz channels that are standard in Wi-Fi.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2024
  • These are, in essence, independent 32-bit microprocessors that run at 200 megahertz and are designed to communicate with external hardware.
    — Sai Yamanoor, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2017
  • With that single-molecule layer, the researchers were able to reach the maximum change in conductivity at a frequency of more than 1 megahertz, several orders of magnitude faster than other heat-management systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That wavelength occupies an optical channel — similar to a radio station frequency, but operating at roughly 200 terahertz rather than megahertz.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Frissell expects that in the shadow of the moon, the technique will inhibit ham-radio chatter on frequencies between about 14 to 30 megahertz, while enhancing communications on lower frequencies.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And because the actuation frequencies (between 1 and 100 kilohertz) are far below those used for clinical imaging (between 1 and 20 megahertz), the two functions don’t interfere.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Microwave and radio-wave radiation oscillate at frequencies measured in gigahertz or megahertz—slow enough to be manipulated and electronically processed in conventional circuits and computer systems.
    — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Both the cellular and Wi-Fi industries consider this contiguous block, which covers frequencies from 5,925 to 7,125 megahertz, critical.
    — Stephen Cousins, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026

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