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ShareThe hertz (symbol: Hz) is the SI unit of frequency.
One hertz simply means "one per second" (1 / s); 100 Hz means "one hundred per second", and so on.
For more information about the topic Hertz, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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