Miles Per Hour

Definition: Miles Per Hour

Miles Per Hour

Noun

1. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).

2. A speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel.

Specialty Definition: Miles per hour

Modern Usage: Miles Per Hour

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Well, it's comforting to know that you'll be going straight to hell at no more than three miles per hour. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

And he's headed for the ground at a hundred-and-seventy-five thousand miles per hour. And curchunk he's imbedded in your head (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary)

That's because you're going 20 miles per hour. (Fathers' Day; writing credit: Francis Veber)

One of those boys was so crazy he sawed his own head off going 90 miles per hour. (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; writing credit: Kim Henkel; Tobe Hooper)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Miles Per Hour

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A Royal Air Force ground staff at work on a Stirling bomber, which has a speed of 300 miles per hour and can carry a bomb load of eight tons. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Miles Per Hour

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Sri Lanka	However, virtually all roads are only one lane in each direction, and the average speed of travel is only about 20 miles per hour (30 kmh). Traffic in Colombo is congested. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: Miles Per Hour

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-l-m-o-p-r-r-s-u"
	-3 letters: implorers, rulership, superhero.
	-4 letters: emperors, euphroes, homelier, implorer, implores, lorimers, moperies, murphies, perilous, plushier, polisher, premiers, premorse, presumer, primeros, primrose, promisee, promiser, reimpose, repliers, repolish, repulser, rheumier, roperies, rumplier, shrimper, simperer, spherier, spherule, superior, superlie, supremer.
	-5 letters: elopers, emperor, empires, emprise, epimers, episome, eremuri, euphroe, heliums, helpers, hempier, heroism, herries, hirples, horsier, humpier.
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