noun
- plural of megacycle; units of frequency equal to one million cycles per second
Usage: technical; largely replaced by ‘megahertz’
Examples
- The radio station broadcasts at 101.5 megacycles.
- Early electronics manuals often specified frequencies in megacycles.
- The oscillator operates at several megacycles per second.
- Modern equipment uses megahertz instead of megacycles.
- The frequency range extends from 30 to 300 megacycles.