metabolic rate

1. 1.

   rate of metabolism; the amount of energy expended in a give period

   Broaderrate

   Narrowerbasal metabolic rate

Questions about metabolic rate

What does metabolic rate mean?

metabolic rate means "rate of metabolism; the amount of energy expended in a give period".

Is metabolic rate a common word?

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.