basal metabolic rate

1. 1.

   the rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state

   SynonymsBMR

   Broadermetabolic rate

Questions about basal metabolic rate

What does basal metabolic rate mean?

basal metabolic rate means "the rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state".

What is another word for basal metabolic rate?

Close synonyms include BMR. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basal metabolic rate a common word?

basal metabolic rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.