MILES PER HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miles per hour mean? 

• MILES PER HOUR (noun)
  The noun MILES PER HOUR has 2 senses:

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

2. a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILES PER HOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

miles per hour; mph

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

miles per hour; mph

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

indication; meter reading; reading (a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument)

 Context examples 

The globular clusters were moving at relatively low speeds, less than 23,000 miles per hour.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

MESSENGER spacecraft will impact the planet at more than 8,750 miles per hour (3.91 kilometers per second) on the side of the planet facing away from Earth.

(NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury, NASA)

Winds can exceed 155 miles per hour.

(Hurricanes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

They are moving away from each other at a few miles per hour.

(Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet, NASA)

For all I knew, it might have been four miles per hour instead of two.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, saw a bright comet plunge toward the sun on Aug. 3-4, 2016, at nearly 1.3 million miles per hour.

(ESA, NASA’s SOHO Sees Bright Sungrazer Comet, NASA)

The team also found that the maximum speed of the blast wave is about 12 million miles per hour.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

The enormous cold front studied with Chandra formed about 5 billion years ago and has been traveling at speeds of about 300,000 miles per hour ever since.

(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)

This material then settles into a disk around the companion, and serves as the launching pad for blobs of plasma, which travel at roughly a half-million miles per hour.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

New study revealed that the Dracula ant or Mystrium camillae, has the fastest animal movement on record as it can snap its mandibles at speeds of up to 90 meters per second, which makes it more than 200 miles per hour.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)