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I can't quite figure out for certain what you're asking but I'll make a couple guesses.

Standard house current arrives at your home using a 60CPS (cycles per second, also called hertz, named after Heinrich Hertz.) There are impurities in the electrical current, minor fluctuation's called spikes that can sometimes appear as other frequencies but the primary power source is delivered using the 60hz voltage.

A single "wave" of the current can be observed by using an oscilloscope. Starting at the point where the voltage is zero, the voltage rises to a peak, then falls, passes through zero again and peaks in the opposite direction and finally returns to zero. This describes a cycle or sometimes it's called a "wave".

I hope this has answered your question.

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