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Abbreviations for "kilometres per hour" did not appear in the English language until the late nineteenth century. 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 ...
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. The US adopted the international definition in 1954, having previously ...
atmosphere-cubic foot per hour: atm cfh [citation needed] ≡ 1 atm × 1 cu ft/h = 0.797 001 247 04 W: atmosphere-cubic foot per minute: atm cfm [citation needed] ≡ 1 atm × 1 cu ft/min = 47.820 074 682 24 W: atmosphere-cubic foot per second: atm cfs [citation needed] ≡ 1 atm × 1 cu ft/s = 2.869 204 480 9344 × 10 3 W: BTU (International ...
mile per imperial gallon: mpgus: mpg ‑US: mile per US gallon: mile per U.S. gallon L/km: L/km: litre per kilometre: liter per kilometer L/100 km: L/100 km: litre per 100 kilometres: liter per 100 kilometers
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.
A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute ( 1 / 60 of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).
The woman told the officers that she had been traveling 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) when she felt something on her foot and looked down to find a tiger snake — one of the world ...
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).