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average speed

noun

  1. the total distance traveled divided by the total time elapsed.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of average speed1

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

Between 1980 and 1990, the average speed of a Tour de France rider was 37.5 kilometers per hour.

Tried at a measured mile with anthracite and Merthyr coal mixed, three years afterwards, her average speed was 11 knots.

The average speed of the most rapid construction is reported to be at the rate of a slow walk.

He has not very full control of the ball, but his curves are good, and he possesses more than the average speed.

These daring pilots made the distance of 1900 miles in sixteen hours—an average speed of 119 miles an hour.

The average speed of the winner was something like twenty-two kilometres an hour.

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