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Hertz

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Amyl and the Sniffers: Hertz

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Hertz ordered to reveal data on car theft reports

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Hertz CEO promises to address false arrests

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EDEN - hertz (official audio)

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Colorado man says Hertz had him arrested for stealing a car, despite never renting from the compa…

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. It is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. Hertz are commonly expressed in multiples: kilohertz (103 Hz, kHz), megahertz (106 Hz, MHz), gigahertz (109 Hz, GHz), and terahertz (1012 Hz, THz).
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