revolutions per minute

Examples

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• A high-performance composite flywheel rotor spinning anywhere from 30,000 to more than 100,000 revolutions per minute has lots of inertia.

  Academic text (1996)

• Spinning at more than ten thousand revolutions per minute.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Figure 1 (bottom panel) shows the revolutions per minute under control, music, money, and money plus music conditions.

  Academic text (2007)

• The controller measures the revolutions per minute at the drive end and output and controls the gear shifting by changing its hydraulic pressure.

  Academic text (1995)

• The encoder can operate in applications with rotation speeds of 30,000 revolutions per minute.

  Academic text (2001)

• Participants pedaled at 60 revolutions per minute (rpm).

  Academic text (2009)

• The lean burn stratified charge mode operates at engine speeds of up to 3,500 revolutions per minute, corresponding to urban driving conditions.

  Academic text (2000)

• The motor turned the back roller at approximately 60 revolutions per minute (RPM), which translates into a roller surface speed of approximately 0.86 m/s.

  Academic text (1995)

• The microcontroller is programmed to count the number of times the encoder disk rotates and reports the results in revolutions per minute (RPM).

  Academic text (2008)

• The car's engine operates smoothly at 2,500 revolutions per minute on the highway.

Synonyms

R

rev

vsrevolutions per minute

• Specialized

53 5.8

The number of times an engine turns in one minute

refers specifically to the rate counted per minute rather than a single turn

R

rpm

vsrevolutions per minute

• Specialized

24 3.1

The number of complete turns a machine like an engine makes in one minute

is the full phrase rather than the abbreviation

How Fast

to redline

• Specialized

1 7.8

revolutions per minute

• Specialized

1 3.5

to idle

• Specialized

2 5.3

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