miles per hour
Rate of travel
Miles per hour is a unit measuring speed—the distance in miles traveled during one hour.
Standard in the United States and United Kingdom for vehicle speeds, speed limits, and wind velocity: The speed limit is 65 miles per hour.
Abbreviated mph or MPH.
Often shortened to just miles in casual speech: I was doing eighty miles an hour.
- speedometerVehicle velocity display
- radar gunDevice measuring object velocity
- radar detectorDevice sensing police equipment
- velocityDirected rate of motion
- fastSpeedy, or skip eating
speed · top speed · zero to sixty · Mach number · average speed · speed limit · clocking · rate · slow · acceleration · pedal to the metal · imperial system · fuel efficiency · miles per gallon · cruise control · speed of light · dashboard · automobile
- speed unitsmph, kph, knots, feet per second, fps
- compound unitsfeet per second, gallons per minute, pounds per square inch, bits per second, bytes per second
- speedspeed, quickness, rate, velocity, pace
- unitsunit, angstrom, yard, meter, base units
miles per hourkilometers per hour
Metric velocity measurement
metres per second · km/h · kph · m/s · knots
miles per hourstationary
Not in motion
at rest · motionless · standstill · stopped · immobile
hour, mile, hours, hourly, mileage, millimeter, mileages, milligram