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kilometre per hour: km/h km/h US spelling: kilometer per hour: 1.0 km/h (0.62 mph) km/h mph; Imperial & US customary: mile per hour: mph mph 1.0 mph (1.6 km/h) mph km/h; mile per second: mi/s mi/s 1.0 mi/s (1.6 km/s) mi/s km/s; foot per second: ft/s (foot/s) ft/s long code "foot/s" outputs foot per second (and never feet) 1.0 ft/s (0.30 m/s) ft ...
The metre per second is the unit of both speed ... 1 mile per hour = 0.447 04 m/s (exactly) [8] 1 km/h = 0.2 7 m/s (exactly) [9]
The kilometre, a unit of length, first appeared in English in 1810, [9] and the compound unit of speed "kilometers per hour" was in use in the US by 1866. [10] "Kilometres per hour" did not begin to be abbreviated in print until many years later, with several different abbreviations existing near-contemporaneously.
Miles per hour (mph, m.p.h., MPH, or mi/h) is a British imperial and United States customary unit of speed expressing the number of miles travelled in one hour.It is used in the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of smaller countries, most of which are UK or US territories, or have close historical ties with the UK or US.
The SI unit of speed is the metre per second (m/s), but the most common unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometre per hour (km/h) or, in the US and the UK, miles per hour (mph). For air and marine travel, the knot is commonly used.
Unit code Symbol US symbol Scale Extra Name Plural name US name US plural name Prefix Default Link isp: s: 9.80665: second: km/s: Specific impulse: km/h: km/h: 10/36: kilometre per hour
To convert from kilometers per hour to meters per hour, multiply the figure by 1,000 (hence the prefix kilo-from the ancient Greek language word for thousand).; To convert from meters per second to meters per hour, divide the figure by 3,600 (that is 60 * 60, i.e. 60 seconds for each of the 60 minutes).
1 nautical mile per hour (by definition), 1 852.000 metres per hour (exactly), [5] 0.51444 metres per second (approximately), 1.15078 miles per hour (approximately), 20.25372 inches per second (approximately) 1.68781 feet per second (approximately). The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is 1 852 m.