Alternative letter-case form of RPM
"The mechanic adjusted the engine's governor to limit the rpm and prevent overheating during high-speed runs."
Abbreviation of revolutions per minute.
In plain English: RPM is a way to measure how many times something spins around in one minute.
"The engine's rpm increased rapidly as she pressed the gas pedal deeper."
Usage: Rpm and rpm are interchangeable lowercase forms of the acronym that stands for revolutions per minute, commonly used to measure engine speed or record player velocity. Use this term when specifying rotational frequency in mechanical contexts rather than as a general unit like "speed."
Alternative letter-case form of RPM
"After installing the latest updates via rpm on my server, I noticed that several critical security patches were successfully applied to the Red Hat distribution."
RPM Package Manager, or formerly Red Hat Package Manager, a package management system used by some distributions of the Linux operating system – most importantly those by Red Hat.
RPM is an English acronym derived from the words revolutions per minute, originally used to measure rotational speed in mechanical engineering contexts. It has no single language of origin beyond its construction from standard English terms describing frequency and time.