mph
201
2.3
- noun
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millas por hora
- The speed limit on this highway is 55 mph.
- speed of mph
- speed limit of mph
- travel at mph
And then they asked people to estimate the speed of the two cars in mph.
- And then they asked people to estimate the speed of the two cars in mph.
- Like and also tell me Usain Bolt, the really quick dude, how fast does he Sprint in mph?
- I'm talking of hundreds and hundreds of mph, the stuff you wish you could do.
- Slow down, you speed it up to three mph.
- Kilometers that's got to be slower than mph.
- I'm like not breathing, but I'm talking a million mph.
- Now, again, knots is nautical mph, right?
- OK, so the rest of our CES tour is going to be on this seven mph.
- You know, the military historian, like, Uber scientists had figured out strides per minute and mph.
Examples
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That thing must be going 80 mph!
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Heavy rain and wind speeds up to 85 mph are to be expected.
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We are at 30 MPH.
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I had been going about 40 mph, and he had been sliding toward me faster than that.
Fiction book (2000) -
The cars that pass at 65 mph force my car to roll gently.
Fiction book (2002) -
Landscape going by at 250 mph looks about the same as it does going past at 70.
Academic text (2002) -
The engines that power these monsters can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 8 seconds.
Academic text (2013) -
We're doing over 100 mph and we haven't used 1/10th of our power yet.
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Louise looks at the speedometer touching 80 mph and lets her foot off the gas.
Fiction book (1991) -
Noah's already up to 70 MPH, races through a yellow light, hangs a left.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
98
1.7
A measure of speed showing how many miles you travel in one hour
Surface Forms
Morphology
mph = m + p + h
This is an initialism ('m','p','h' = miles per hour); the letters themselves do not convey the meaning to learners unless they know the expansion.
Etymology
The word mph comes from the phrase miles per hour: miles is the distance, per means 'for each', and hour is the time. So mph simply shows how many miles are covered in one hour, which is why it measures speed.