beats per minute

1. 1.

   the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds

   Synonymsbpmmetronome markingM.M.

   Broadertempo

   Part ofmusic

   music

Questions about beats per minute

What does beats per minute mean?

beats per minute means "the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds".

What is another word for beats per minute?

Close synonyms include bpm, metronome marking, M.M.. 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 beats per minute a common word?

beats per minute 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.