Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
rate of revolution of a motor;
- Example: "the engine was doing 6000 revs"[syn: revolutions per minute, rpm, rev]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
revolutions per minute
n 1: rate of revolution of a motor; "the engine was doing 6000
revs" [syn: revolutions per minute, rpm, rev]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
revolutions per minute
rotations per minute
rpm
(rpm, rarely: rotations per minute) A unit of angular
velocity equal to 1/60 of a revolution per second.
(2015-02-26)