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  • noun Plural form of megacycle.

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Examples

  • The chip cycle is flying high on the bandwidth and industrial connectivity megacycles propelling semiconductor revenues to new highs with each passing week and month.

    Analog Chips Drive The Industrial Boom 2010

  • Applications cannot use more than 500 MB of total storage, 200 million megacycles/day CPU time, and 10 GB bandwidth (both ways) per day.

    Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine Michael Arrington 2005

  • In radio astronomy, the most common frequency received is 1,420 megacycles, which corresponds to the 21 centimeter wavelength of hydrogen as determined by a spectrometer.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • In radio astronomy, the most common frequency received is 1,420 megacycles, which corresponds to the 21 centimeter wavelength of hydrogen as determined by a spectrometer.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • And it repeats that particular signal on 121 1/2 megacycles or kilohertz or megahertz, and on 243 megahertz, so that it can be received by both military aircraft and civilian aircraft -- and a frequency that is routinely monitored by airlines and military aircraft.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: White House Spokesman Joe Lockhart Holds Press Briefing on Hijacked Cuban Plane Down in International Waters - September 19, 2000 2000

  • Assuming it would be convergent if relativistically treated, he estimated he would get about a thousand megacycles for the Lamb-shift, and thus, made the most important discovery in the history of the theory of quantum electrodynamics.

    Richard P. Feynman - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • The radio on his suit was a tunable one, covering an unusually wide band, and somewhere not far away the Doradus was pumping out power on everything from a thousand megacycles upwards.

    Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

  • The one that could apparently phase out any electromagnetic frequency up to about a hundred thousand megacycles -- including sixty-cycle power frequencies -- was considered a particularly cute item.

    Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957

  • Wherever the words "station" or "radio station" are used in this order, they shall be deemed to include any station for radio communication, and also any device capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations between 10 kilocycles and 100,000 megacycles, suitable for use as a navigational aid beyond five miles.

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10312 1951

  • The radio on his suit was a tunable one, covering an unusually wide band, and somewhere not far away the Doradus was pumping out power on everything from a thousand megacycles upward.

    Expedition to Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

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