average speed
Mean rate traveled
Average speed is the total distance traveled divided by the total time taken, regardless of variations along the way.
A car that covers 300 miles in 5 hours has an average speed of 60 miles per hour, even if it stopped for gas or crawled through traffic.
What was your average speed on the drive?
The measure smooths out acceleration, deceleration, and pauses into a single figure.
- cruise controlAutomatic velocity maintenance system
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- velocityDirected rate of motion
- distanceSpace between two points
- as the crow fliesDirect distance, ignoring terrain
knots · stopwatch · time trial · kinematics · miles per hour · radar gun · acceleration · time · ETA · traffic analysis · fuel efficiency · pace · mph · clock · steady · trajectory · motion · typical
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- Train Speedvelocity, acceleration, braking, bullet train, express
- speedquickness, rate, velocity, pace, swiftness
- fitness metricssteps, calories burned, distance, heart rate, step count
- speed termsacceleration, momentum, terminal velocity, rate of change, escape velocity
- traffictraffic jam, congestion, traffic, gridlock, traffic congestion