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🔐 Security chip or method ⏱️ Transactions per minute 🛠️ Third-party maintenance
TPM

TPM

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Number of transactions finished in one minute that shows system speed
  • noun
  • Specialized
: TPM
  • The company aims to increase its TPM to meet the growing demand for online transactions.

Examples

  • According to TPM, he's already got 303, as compared to Mitt Romney's 202.

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  • As the results of the election were called by news organizations, the conversation about the election on Twitter surged, hitting a peak of 327,452 tweets per minute (TPM).

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  • The database showed an impressive TPM of 500, indicating it could handle many transactions efficiently.

  • Monitoring the system's TPM helped our team identify performance issues before they affected users.

Surface Forms

TPM singular
TPMs plural

Etymology

TPM stands for transactions per minute, so it simply counts how many 'transactions' a system completes in one 'minute'. Think of it like 'miles per hour' for a car — it shows how fast a server or database is working.