UHF

American  

Or uhf

1. ultrahigh frequency.

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UHF British  

abbreviation

1. ultrahigh frequency

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UHF Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of ultrahigh frequency

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UHF Cultural  

1. Radio waves with frequencies that run between 300 and 3,000 megahertz. (Compare VHF.)

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Example Sentences

Currently, Nexstar says it reaches 70% of U.S. households, if the UHF discount is removed, through the roughly 200 stations it owns in 116 markets.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026

He got the NFL rights and used them to turn small Fox affiliates all over the country from UHF to VHF channels.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022

At one point in Yankovic’s 1989 feature UHF, Yankovic plays a parody of Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky character due to Stallone himself backing out of a planned cameo.

From The Verge • May 3, 2022

Some places had local repertory houses or campus film societies, but otherwise your best chance to catch something old or weird was on a local UHF station during off-hours.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

There was a kind of abstract tile pattern on the baffle, and an old-fashioned UHF TV antenna rising from behind it.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory