RPM (disambiguation)

RPM is an abbreviation of revolutions per minute, a measure of rotation frequency.

RPM may also refer to:

Business

• Revenue per mille (thousand), related to cost per mille, in advertising
• Resale price maintenance, in economics
• RPM International Inc, a chemical sealant company
• RPM (magazine), a defunct Canadian music and radio industry magazine
• RPM Records (USA), USA
• RPM Records (UK), subsidiary of Cherry Red
• RPM Mortgage, Inc., Mortgage Banking - USA
• Radio Programas de México, Mexican radio program syndicator and station owner

Computers

• Ranish Partition Manager
• RPM Package Manager, a software package manager, originally Red Hat Package Manager
• Route Processing Module (Cisco: Partial list of hardware products), a hardware routing application used to route layer 3 traffic across the internet
• Rights Protection Mechanism, for the new Top-Level Domains (TLDs)

Film and TV

• RPM (Cars), a character in the movie Cars
• RPM (TV series), a long-running Australian motorsport show on Network Ten
• R. P. M., a 1971 drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, written by Erich Segal and starring Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret.
• RPM (film), a 1997 action film starring David Arquette, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Famke Janssen.
• Randle Patrick McMurphy, the protagonist of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Power Rangers: RPM, the seventeenth season of the popular television series
• "RPM" (The Batman), a third season episode of The Batman
• RPM, one of the ring names of professional wrestler Jay Lethal

Music

• RPM (Brazilian band)
• RPM (American band), band co-founded by Robert White Johnson and Jimmie Lee Sloas, releasing two albums between 1982 and 1984.
• Revolutions per Minute (Rise Against album)
• Revolutions per Minute (Skid Row album)
• Rock Productions Music, a Christian rock band
• RPM (Sugar Ray song) single by Sugar Ray from their album Floored 1998
• RPM (Sasha Pieterse song) 2013
• "RPM" (Boney James song), a song from the Boney James album Ride

Organizations

• Rassemblement pour le Mali, a political party in Mali
• Richard Petty Motorsports, a NASCAR team formerly known as Gillett Evernham Motorsports

Science

• 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, a mnemonic used in simple triage and rapid treatment
• Rounds per minute, used to quantify a weapon's rate of fire
• Root Production Method, a nursery process used to accelerate growth of root systems
• Radiation Portal Monitor, (Cargo scanning: passive radiation detectors) used at border crossings and junkyards to detect nuclear materials

Transportation

• Raised pavement marker, on U.S. roads
• Revenue passenger mile, a measure of passenger traffic

Other

• Royal Prerogative of Mercy, a power of pardon and commutation
• RPM (horse), a Tennessee Walking Horse