kilometers per hour

1. 1.

   the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)

   Synonymskilometres per hourkphkm/h

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Questions about kilometers per hour

What does kilometers per hour mean?

kilometers per hour means "the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)".

What is another word for kilometers per hour?

Close synonyms include kilometres per hour, kph, km/h. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kilometers per hour a common word?

kilometers per hour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.