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REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does revolutions per minute mean?
• REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE (noun)
The noun REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE has 1 sense:
1. rate of revolution of a motor
Familiarity information: REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rate of revolution of a motor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
rev; revolutions per minute; rpm
Context example:
the engine was doing 6000 revs
Hypernyms ("revolutions per minute" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
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