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of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work

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  1. adj. of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work
  2. Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz. Hertzian telegraphy, telegraphy by means of the Hertzian waves; wireless telegraphy. -- H. waves, electric waves; -- so called because Hertz was the first to investigate them systematically. His apparatus consisted essentially in an oscillator for producing the waves, and a resonator for detecting them. The waves were found to have the same velocity as light, and to undergo reflection, refraction, and polarization.
  3. Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.
  4. a of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work