rpm
Americanabbreviation
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revolutions per minute
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resale price maintenance
Example Sentences
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This relic of combustion awakens in the morning with the refinement of a coffee grinder, winding at around 3,000 rpm until the catalytic converter heats up and the revs fall back to idle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
These years of collaboration led to several of his original compositions being pressed into 78 rpm shellac records.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Pressed as a 78 rpm disc, it featured songs like The Good Ship Victory and There Comes a Time.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
You’ll also hear a larger, darker woofling from the tailpipes, and phlegmy, spattering cough as the rpm fall off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
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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