KILOMETRES PER HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilometres per hour mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILOMETRES 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 ("kilometres per hour" is a kind of...):

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

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

An international team of astronomers has found that one of the stars in NGC 3201 is behaving very oddly — it is being flung backwards and forwards at speeds of several hundred thousand kilometres per hour, with the pattern repeating every 167 days.

(Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster, ESO)

The thrust from this ejected material is thought to provide the small but steady push that is sending `Oumuamua hurtling out of the Solar System faster than expected — as of 1 June 2018 it is traveling at roughly 114 000 kilometres per hour.

(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)