heart rate

See also: heartrate

English

Noun

heart rate (countable and uncountable, plural heart rates)

2. The number of heartbeats per unit of time, usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.

   Synonym: HR (initialism)

   Hypernym: rate

   Near-synonym: pulse

   • 2025 June 25 (last accessed), “Measuring Resting Heart Rate (RHR)”, in Virginia Commonwealth University‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 June 2025, page 1:

     For most adults, a normal resting heart rate ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute
     For children less than 10, normal resting heart rates vary by age: […]

Derived terms

• heart rate monitor

Translations

number of heart beats per unit of time — see also pulse

• Armenian: սրտի կծկումների հաճախականություն (srti kckumneri hačaxakanutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心率 (zh) (xīnlǜ), ^{(please verify)} 心跳率 (xīntiàoshuài), ^{(please verify)} 心跳速率 (xīntiàosùshuài)

• Czech: tepová frekvence f, srdeční rytmus m
• Dutch: hartslag (nl) m
• Finnish: syke (fi)
• French: fréquence cardiaque (fr) f
• Georgian: გულისცემა (guliscema), გულისცემის სიხშირე (guliscemis sixšire)
• German: Herzfrequenz (de) f
• Japanese: 心拍 (ja) (しんぱく, shinpaku), 心拍数 (ja) (しんぱくすう, shinpakusū)
• Korean: 심박(心搏) (ko) (simbak), 심박수(心搏數) (simbaksu), 심장박동수(心臟搏動數) (simjangbakdongsu)
• Polish: tętno (pl) n
• Portuguese: pulso (pt) m, frequência cardíaca f
• Russian: частота́ серде́чных сокраще́ний (ru) (častotá serdéčnyx sokraščénij), частота ритма (častota ritma)
• Spanish: ritmo cardiaco m, frecuencia cardíaca f, tasa cardiaca f
• Swedish: hjärtfrekvens (sv) c, puls (sv) c
• Vietnamese: nhịp tim

Further reading

• heart rate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia