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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation gigahertz
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- noun metrology Symbol for the
gigahertz , anSI unit offrequency equal to 109hertz .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 1,000,000,000 periods per second
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· Intel Pentium III 1 GHz (Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz+ CPU recommended) · Network adapter
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Vast tranches of the radio spectrum from 9 kHz to 275 GHz is taken up by radio and television, both the older analogue transmissions that are currently being switched off and the newer digital services that replace them, DAB and digital terrestrial television.
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They can be used at hundreds of GHz, which is at least ten times higher than possible with ordinary transistors.
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The researchers have achieved data rates that exceed 1 GHz, which is more than 100 times greater than the speed of existing quantum memories.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The researchers have achieved data rates that exceed 1 GHz, which is more than 100 times greater than the speed of existing quantum memories.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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In addition to the LTE Connected Car, the event also will feature drive demonstrations, in an LTE-equipped R&D van - used to test the capabilities of LTE technology -- of mobile services on the company's campus-wide LTE network operating at 2.6 GHz, which is expected to be one of the leading frequency bands for LTE in Europe.
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Dual-band routers can transmit at both 2.4 and 5 gigahertz GHz, which is great except that most current Blu-ray players - probably including yours - support only 2.4 GHz.
SFGate: Top News Stories David Einstein 2010
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Dual-band routers can transmit at both 2.4 and 5 gigahertz GHz, which is great except that most current Blu-ray players - probably including yours - support only 2.4 GHz.
SFGate: Top News Stories David Einstein 2010
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The new Nehalem CPU runs at 3.33 GHz, which is only slightly faster than the i7 965 but the
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The new Nehalem CPU runs at 3.33 GHz, which is only slightly faster than the i7 965 but the
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