METABOLIC RATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("metabolic rate" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metabolic rate"):

basal metabolic rate; BMR (the rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state)