kilocycle
IPA: kˈɪɫʌsˈaɪkʌɫ
noun
- A thousand cycles (of any periodic phenomenon).
- (elliptically) A thousand cycles per second; a kilohertz.
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Examples of "kilocycle" in Sentences
- KHz Kilohertz -- international unit for kilocycle.
- There Smith discovered that the frequency dial was one kilocycle off.
- On that same page, they have KC for kilocycle, but no KHz for kilohertz.
- For use of frequencies in the 4960–4980 kilocycle range to overcome radio interference by solar storms a.k.a., the Dellinger effect, see SRH-355, pp.
- In addition, a piercing audio alarm, guaranteed to set teeth on edge as it warbled up and down through a kilocycle range, sounded on the unit's seldom-used speaker.
- Also, I'm going to cut our slit down to a width of one kilocycle, if I can possibly figure out a way of working on that narrow a band, and I'm going to step up our shifting speed to a hundred thousand.
- A first day communications intelligence student, aware that Radio Tokyo and Radio Ominato were transmitting to warships using the 11,000 to 16,000 kilocycle range, could consult the Bureau’s charts and could approximate—if not pinpoint—the position of the vessels.
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