very high frequency

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Thus a wart can be burned off with very high frequency current without causing the heart to stop.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

It was later found that these discharges created an invisible, penetrating form of very high frequency electromagnetic radiation.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Quartz clocks exploit the fact that quartz crystals vibrate at a very high frequency if the right electrical charge is applied to them.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2014

At Baselworld this year, the watchmaker presented its Classique Chronométrie 7727, the first nonchronograph watch that can oscillate at the very high frequency of 10 Hz, or 72,000 vibrations per hour.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2012

On the other hand, the impedance of such a coil to a lightning discharge is much higher, due to the very high frequency of the discharge.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster