count per minute
- noun
:
conteo por minuto
- For accurate results, it is crucial to measure the counts per minute in a controlled environment.
Examples
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Responses (incorporation of labeled thymidine) are determined by the Student's t-test comparing mean counts per minute (cpm) in cells exposed to medium alone with cells exposed to antigen.
Academic text (1996) -
Robinson used Treuth's cutpoint for MVPA of 3000 activity counts per minute.
Academic text (2012) -
The counting rate was only a few counts per minute, which wasn't worth diverting our chemists from the analysis of the very hot samples that they were working with.
Academic text (1996) -
Chemist Richard Baus, working with Lockhart, separated out a plutonium fraction with about 10 alpha counts per minute.
Academic text (1996) -
Results are expressed as stimulation index (SI) defined as the mean number of counts per minute (cpm) incorporated in the presence of antigen divided by the mean number of cpm incorporated with medium alone.
Academic text (1999) -
The device recorded 500 counts per minute during the experiment, indicating a high level of activity.
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The technician noted that the average counts per minute increased significantly after the calibration.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
The speed or amount at which something happens over time
495
3.0
How often something happens over time
1
7.7
The number of times a meter measures something in one minute
A number that shows how many events happen in one minute
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the number of occurrences within one minute' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'count' (a tally) with 'per' (indicating rate) and 'minute' (sixty seconds). This is a standard, cross-linguistically common rate construction, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Count per minute comes from the simple action of counting how many times something happens in one minute. If you count beats or clicks per minute, you find the 'number of events' in that time, so the phrase means the number measured in one minute.