kph
7
2.7
- noun
- Australian
:
km/h
- During the car race, the drivers reached speeds of over 200 kph on the straightaway.
Examples
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We in the mid-latitudes are heading east at about 1100 kph, and those people north of us are moving even slower.
Academic text (2005) -
Kawasaki, I believe, said they would be producing a 360 kph-capable train for export markets.
Blog text (30) -
We got something like 250 KPH.
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You could hit a high of 340 kph here.
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The circuit features nine corners taken below 100 kph, more than Monaco, and...
Blog text (23) -
At the same time, another man left Nashville heading west at 60 kph.
Blog text (27) -
The driving speeds in the city never exceed 24 mph (40 kph).
Blog text (26) -
10 of the circuit's 18 corners are taken at between 170 kph and 270 kph, including the entire Esses.
Blog text (23) -
The fastest speed I've seen here is 62 mph (100 kph), and that's on the Northern Luzon Expressway.
Blog text (26) -
The speed limit on this highway is 100 kph, which is about 62 mph.
Synonyms
9
1.7
A unit that shows how many kilometres a vehicle travels in one hour
8
2.4
The number of kilometers you travel in one hour
Surface Forms
Morphology
kph = kilometre + hour (transparent) = k + p + h
An initialism formed from the words 'kilometres per hour'; the meaning is directly recoverable from those component words. [Postprocessing: moved 'per' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
The word kph comes from the phrase kilometres per hour. The part kilo- means 'thousand', per means 'for each', and hour means 'one hour', so kph tells you how many kilometres are travelled in one hour.