Means remove, is used to delete files or directories. But be careful, this command dont send file to trash, they delete and dont have how undo.
# delete a file called index.html in current directory
rm index.html
# delete multiples files in a single command
rm index.html style.css
# finally to delete a directory, you need use flags r and f, respectively, both are abbreviation to recursive and force
rm -rf app