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rpm or r.p.m. EXAMPLES| revolutions per minute. Liberaldictionary.com

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Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for rpm Contemporary Examples of rpm

It sounds more extreme than it is—“forced exercise” is simply tandem riding in which patients are required to pedal 80-90 RPM.

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Historical Examples of rpm

Portions of the turbine also volitized; idling at eight thousand RPM, it became unstable.

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Later tests would put the rim through check-out tests to as high as 1.59 gee, but “normal” operation had been fixed at two RPM.

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Walt Richmond

The out-of-balance fan, turning at close to 35,000 rpm, flew to pieces and the air cushion vanished.

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Meanwhile, they kept up a jabber that sounded like a 33-1/3 rpm record being played 78 rpm.

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British Dictionary definitions for rpm rpm RPM abbreviation for revolutions per minute resale price maintenance Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for rpm

1906, initialism from revolutions per minute.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper rpm in Medicine rpm abbr. revolutions per minute The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.