rpm
Americanabbreviation
-
revolutions per minute
-
resale price maintenance
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Pressed as a 78 rpm disc, it featured songs like The Good Ship Victory and There Comes a Time.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
That momentum is transferred to the other turbine and used to pressurize the air-intake charge, spinning at speeds above 150,000 rpm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
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
I still felt as if I'd been stuffed in a dryer and spun around at a thousand rpm, but as Belet said, I seemed fine.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
