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METABOLIC RATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)