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# mph

«mph» in Mova's school dictionary: **Miles per hour: how many miles something travels in one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

abbreviation (mph — miles per hour)

### meaning for a pupil

Miles per hour: how many miles something travels in one hour; a unit of speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used on road signs and in car speed in the UK and the USA. In maths speed problems: speed = distance ÷ time. Phrases: a 30 mph zone, go at 60 mph.

### examples

- The speed limit near school is 20 mph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x1)
- The car was going at 60 mph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x2)
- A cheetah can run at about 70 mph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x3)
- At 30 mph, a car goes 30 miles in one hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x4)
- The sign said 40 mph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x5)
- The train travelled 120 miles in 2 hours, so its speed was 60 mph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x6)

### note

Written in small letters, usually no full stops: mph. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland use km/h for road speeds. For numbers: distance = speed × time; at 50 mph for 3 hours you go 150 miles. 1 mile is about 1.6 km, so 60 mph is about 97 km/h.

### In the corpora

- [The Highway Code gives a stopping distance at 30 mph of about 23 m: about 9 m thinking plus 14 m braking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/13/)
- [The Highway Code gives a stopping distance at 30 mph of about 23 m: about 9 m thinking plus 14 m braking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/76-olympiad-body-numbers-clocks-and-scores/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mph» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.