rpm
Americanabbreviation
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revolutions per minute
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resale price maintenance
Example Sentences
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A smaller turbo has less ultimate performance at high rpm.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Shift to Sport mode and the engine will hold at a high, keening rpm, trying to charge the battery faster than the driver can drain it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
But some of its other projects—a pandemic-era lending library and the ongoing digitalization of 78 rpm records—have led to lawsuits now threatening the future of this repository of the past.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2024
“We spun our blades up to 3,500 rpm, which is 750 revolutions per minute faster than the Ingenuity blades have gone,” he said in a November statement.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024
They've got walls of vinyl LPs and the old 78 rpm records, even wax cylinders from the first Edison talking machines.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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