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  • abbreviation revolutions per second

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Examples

  • I have spent 14 months in SL, wading through lousy builds and broken rps, and I think that in that time I have learned how to fix the problems.

    "Like night pretending to be day..." (2) matociquala 2008

  • Basically, I'm looking at all that time I've spent in other sims and other rps, at everything that's mucked up rps in which I have taken part, and trying to weed out the problems before they arise.

    Postcard from a Day Off greygirlbeast 2008

  • The AmeriC.rps National Program of C.mmunity Service has 75,000 participants, 1,500 of them right here in Washington, D.C. There will be 6,000 additional spots come September because of the new Obama stimulus funding.

    CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2009 2009

  • Rather, our story is currently registering about 1 rps (reads per second) and if that ` s the case for p2pnet, think of what ` s happening on other sites that are also carrying the story of the travesty.

    100,000 for Britanny Chan! 2005

  • It was not until the winter of 1995 that the sport took a leap several minutes into the future, with the development of the first Web site dedicated to the sport: world rps.com.

    THE OFFICIAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS STRATEGY GUIDE DOUGLAS WALKER 2004

  • It was not until the winter of 1995 that the sport took a leap several minutes into the future, with the development of the first Web site dedicated to the sport: world rps.com.

    THE OFFICIAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS STRATEGY GUIDE DOUGLAS WALKER 2004

  • DOBBS: I have seen what the C. B.s (ph) can do, what the C.rps of Engineers can do.

    CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2003 2003

  • At the senior center, the President will celebrate the launching of the new D.C. C.ty Year AmeriC.rps site, swearing in the new C.ty Year corps members.

    Fact Sheet On The President Honoring Martin Luther King A ITY National Archives 2001

  • At the senior center, the President will celebrate the launching of the new D.C. C.ty Year AmeriC.rps site, swearing in the new C.ty Year corps members.

    Fact Sheet On The President Honoring Martin Luther King ITY National Archives 2001

  • Yesterday, in keeping with my tradition, I went to the Boys and Girls C.ubs of Washington, D.C., with a group of citizens called Greater D.C. C.res, and some young AmeriC.rps volunteers, and we worked on rehabing a facility.

    Remarks By The President On Crime Initiative ITY National Archives 2000

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