Hertz
Frequency unit namesake
Hertz is a major car rental company, one of the largest in the world: I picked up a Hertz rental at the airport.
The company is named after automobile industry pioneer John Hertz, not the physicist. (Lowercase hertz is the unit of frequency.)
Short-term automobile lease
- airportAviation passenger facility
- counterFlat service surface
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
- fleetVehicles under unified command
vehicle · booking · pickup · dropoff · Avis · Budget · Enterprise · travel
Recurring sequences of events
- vibrationsRapid oscillating motions
- oscillationsRepeated back-and-forth motions
- megahertzOne million oscillations per second
- kilohertzThousand-cycle frequency unit
gigahertz · refresh rate · clock speed · sampling rate · periodicity · Hz · bandwidth · modulation
Transmitted media signal
- antennaBroadcast signal receiver
- wirelessUntethered signal transmission
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- shortwaveHigh-frequency radio band
longwave · transceiver · AM · FM · tuning · dial · spectrum · carrier wave
Frequency of sound
- toneQuality of sound
- bassDeep pitch or fish
- trebleHigh frequency range
- acousticsStudy of sound transmission
hearing test · audiogram · tuning fork · frequency response · ear · resonance · timbre · infrasound
car rental
Short-term automobile lease
- airportAviation passenger facility
- counterFlat service surface
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
fleet · vehicle · booking · pickup · dropoff · Avis · Budget · Enterprise · travel · yellow
cycles
Recurring sequences of events
- vibrationsRapid oscillating motions
- oscillationsRepeated back-and-forth motions
- megahertzOne million oscillations per second
kilohertz · gigahertz · refresh rate · clock speed · sampling rate · periodicity · Hz · bandwidth · modulation · waveform
broadcast
Transmitted media signal
- antennaBroadcast signal receiver
- wirelessUntethered signal transmission
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
shortwave · longwave · transceiver · AM · FM · tuning · dial · spectrum · carrier wave · reception
pitch
Frequency of sound
acoustics · hearing test · audiogram · tuning fork · frequency response · ear · resonance · timbre · infrasound · ultrasound
- transport companiesAmerican Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, FedEx, UPS
- Travel BrandsExpedia, Booking.com, Airbnb, Marriott, Hilton
- car rentalcar rental, rental car, car hire, rental period, pickup
- EponymsDarwinian, Alzheimer's disease, Freudian slip, cardigan, Parkinson's disease
- franchisesfranchise, Star Wars, franchising, franchises, franchisor
- Electricity HistoryMichael Faraday, Faraday, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin, Thomas Edison
HertzTesla
EV manufacturer and surname
Faraday · Maxwell · theoretician · Newton · Aristotle
Hertzcar ownership
Legally having a vehicle
buying · public transit · walking · Uber · carpool