RPM (disambiguation)

RPM or rpm is an acronym for revolutions per minute, a measure of rotation frequency.

RPM may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Radiation Portal Monitor, passive radiation detection devices used for screening
• Random positioning machine, a machine used to simulate microgravity
• Raven's Progressive Matrices, a cognitive test
• Rapid plant movement, movement in plant structures occurring over a very short period of time
• Rapid prototyping machine, a 3D printer
• Rendezvous pitch maneuver, performed by a space shuttle
• Respiration, Pulse (or Perfusion), and Mental status, part of the RPM-30-2-Can Do mnemonic used in simple triage and rapid treatment
• Root-Pattern Morphology, Nonconcatenative morphology such as that of Semitic languages.
• Rounds per minute, used to quantify a weapon's rate of fire

Computing

• Ranish Partition Manager, a hard disk partition editor, disk cloning tool, and boot manager
• Route Processing Module, a hardware routing application; See List of Cisco products
• Rights Protection Mechanism, for the new Top-Level Domains (TLDs)
• RPM Package Manager, a software package manager, originally Red Hat Package Manager
• Requests per minute, a indicator for API usage

Medicine

• Remote patient monitoring, a technology to enable monitoring of patients outside of conventional clinical settings

Organizations

• RPM International, a chemical sealant company
• RPM (magazine), a defunct Canadian music and radio industry magazine
• RPM Mortgage, mortgage banking, US
• RPM Records (UK), a subsidiary of Cherry Red
• RPM Records (United States), US
• Radio Programas de México, Mexican radio program syndicator and station owner
• Rally for Mali (Rassemblement pour le Mali), a political party in Mali
• Richard Petty Motorsports, a NASCAR team formerly known as Gillett Evernham Motorsports

Film and television

• R. P. M., a 1971 drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, written by Erich Segal and starring Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret.
• RPM (Cars), a character in the movie Cars
• RPM (film), a 1997 action film starring David Arquette, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Famke Janssen.
• RPM (TV series), a long-running Australian motorsport show on Network Ten
• "RPM" (The Batman), a third season episode of The Batman
• Power Rangers RPM, the seventeenth season of the popular television series

Music

• RPM (American band), a band co-founded by Robert White Johnson and Jimmie Lee Sloas
• RPM (Brazilian band)
• "RPM" (Sugar Ray song), a single by Sugar Ray from the 1998 album Floored
• "RPM" (Sasha Pieterse song), 2013
• "RPM" (Boney James song), a song from the Boney James album Ride
• "RPM" (SF9 song), a 2019 song by the Korean boy band SF9
• Revolutions per Minute (Rise Against album)
• Revolutions per Minute (Skid Row album)
• Rock Productions Music, a Christian rock band

Economics

• Resale price maintenance, in economics
• Revenue per mille, related to cost per mille, in advertising

Other uses

• RPM (horse)
• RPM (rich people money), a really rich people thing
• RPM (nightclub), a former nightclub in Toronto, Canada
• RPM (wrestler)
• Rapid prompting method, is a technique used with communication-disabled children to attempt to help them communicate
• Revenue passenger mile, a measure of passenger traffic
• Royal prerogative of mercy, a power of pardon and commutation