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KM/H
Dictionary entry overview: What does km/h mean?
• KM/H (noun)
The noun KM/H has 1 sense:
1. the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)
Familiarity information: KM/H used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("km/h" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
Context examples
On Sept. 19, ‘Oumuamua sped past the Sun at about 196,000 mph (315,400 km/h), fast enough to escape the Sun’s gravitational pull and break free of the solar system, never to return.
(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)
Zapata flew across the water at over 100 mph (161 km/h).
(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)
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