Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation feet per minute

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  • initialism feet per minute
  • initialism fellow management program

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Examples

  • P: The autopilot leads in spite of setting on "height keep" to a descent of 200 fpm.

    Australian Humor Nalini Singh 2009

  • “Avoid descent rates of 800 fpm feet per minute or greater at airspeeds less than 40 KCAS,” it said, “KCAS” being the abbreviation for “knots-calibrated air speed.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • “Avoid descent rates of 800 fpm feet per minute or greater at airspeeds less than 40 KCAS,” it said, “KCAS” being the abbreviation for “knots-calibrated air speed.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • “Avoid descent rates of 800 fpm feet per minute or greater at airspeeds less than 40 KCAS,” it said, “KCAS” being the abbreviation for “knots-calibrated air speed.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • January 29, 2006 at 04: 03 PM fpm Young: Since you are afraid of homosexuals getting equal treatment, fearful enough to write discrimination into the Virginia constitution, why don't we also write the tax increase into the Virginia constitution??

    Decisive Battle on Tuesday 2006

  • Warn me of a sink rate greater than one thousand fpm.

    A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001

  • Warn me of a sink rate greater than one thousand fpm.

    The Coffin Dancer Deaver, Jeffery 1998

  • Hydraulic Installed - 1990s Fixtures - Series 220 Speed - 125 fpm

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Hydraulic Installed - 1990s Fixtures - Series 220 Speed - 125 fpm

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • With the advent of FastCGI/fpm in PHP-5. 3.3 (very soon on a mirror near you), the preferred way to run multiple versions of PHP in parallel is CGI.

    Planet Gentoo 2010

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