KILOMETERS PER HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilometers per hour mean? 

• KILOMETERS PER HOUR (noun)
  The noun KILOMETERS PER HOUR has 1 sense:

1. the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)

  Familiarity information: KILOMETERS PER HOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILOMETERS PER HOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

kilometers per hour; kilometres per hour; km/h; kph

Hypernyms ("kilometers per hour" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

The NuSTAR spectral data reveal that titanium-44 is moving away from us with a velocity of 1.6 million mph (2.6 million kilometers per hour).

(Star Explosion is Lopsided, NASA)

Dawn is currently 640,000 kilometers from Ceres, approaching it at around 725 kilometers per hour.

(Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres, NASA)

It can reportedly reach speeds up to 70 kilometers per hour and can travel 25 kilometers on one 10-minute charge.

(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)

At the time, Juno was traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

We hit the Martian atmosphere at 12,300 mph (19,800 kilometers per hour), and the whole sequence to touching down on the surface took only six-and-a-half minutes, said InSight project manager Tom Hoffman at JPL.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

The charge is likely generated by the winds on Titan, which blow at around 30 kilometers per hour.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

The tiny dust grains were speeding through the Saturn system at over 45,000 mph (72,000 kilometers per hour), fast enough to avoid being trapped inside the solar system by the gravity of the sun and its planets.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)