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  2. Miles per hour - Wikipedia

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    0.44704. 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.

  3. Fastest animals - Wikipedia

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    The Australian tiger beetle, Rivacindela hudsoni, is one of the fastest running insects in the world relative to body size, which has been recorded at 6.8 km/h (4.2 mph) or 171 body lengths per second. It can fly at 43 km/h (27 mph). Paratarsotomus macropalpis: 22 cm/s (8.7 in/s) 0.8 km/h (0.50 mph)

  4. Speed of sound - Wikipedia

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    The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. More simply, the speed of sound is how fast vibrations travel. At 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound in air is about 343 m/s (1,125 ft/s; 1,235 km/h; 767 mph; 667 kn), or 1 km in 2.91 s or one mile in 4.69 s.

  5. Metre per second - Wikipedia

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    3.2808. The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a time of one second. According to the definition of metre, [1] 1 m/s is exactly of the speed ...

  6. Beaufort scale - Wikipedia

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    39–46 mph 62–74 km/h 17.2–20.7 m/s 18–25 ft 5.5–7.5 m Moderately high waves of greater length; edges of crests break into spindrift; foam is blown in well-marked streaks along the direction of the wind Twigs break off trees; generally impedes progress 9 Strong/severe gale 41–47 knots 47–54 mph 75–88 km/h 20.8–24.4 m/s

  7. Metre per hour - Wikipedia

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    Its symbol is m/h or m·h −1 (not to be confused with the imperial unit symbol mph). By definition, an object travelling at a speed of 1 m/h for an hour would move 1 metre. The term is rarely used however as the units of metres per second and kilometres per hour are considered sufficient for the majority of circumstances. Metres per hour can ...

  8. Wind speed - Wikipedia

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    The meter per second ... other units such as miles per hour (mph), ... 160 ft/s); the extreme gust factor was on the order of 2.27–2.75 times the mean wind speed.

  9. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour).