revolutions per minute

Definitions

Aviation

• noun the speed of an engine or the number of rotations of the crankshaft per minute

Cars & Driving

• noun the number of times the crankshaft turns in one minute.

Electronics

• A unit of angular velocity indicating the number of 360° rotations completed per minute. This is equal to about 0.1047198 radian per second. Its abbreviation is rpm.

Media Studies

• noun a measurement of how fast something turns, usually used to describe the speed that a gramophone record plays at.

General Science

• abbreviationr.p.m.

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Contexts for “revolutions per minute”

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