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# mph

abbreviation (mph — miles per hour)

«mph» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x1)
- The car was going at 60 mph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x2)
- A cheetah can run at about 70 mph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x3)
- At 30 mph, a car goes 30 miles in one hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/#x4)
- The sign said 40 mph. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mph» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mph/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mph» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mph.html) on Mova free.