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nautical mile
海里
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Nau·tic·al
a.
Of
or
pertaining
to
seamen
,
to
the
art
of
navigation
,
or
to
ships
;
as
,
nautical
skill
.
Syn:
--
Naval
;
marine
;
maritime
.
See
Naval
.
Nautical almanac
.
See
under
Almanac
.
Nautical distance
,
the
length
in
nautical
miles
of
the
rhumb
line
joining
any
two
places
on
the
earth's
surface
.
nautical mile
.
See
under
Mile
.
◄
►
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Mile
n.
A
certain
measure
of
distance
,
being
equivalent
in
England
and
the
United
States
to
320
poles
or
rods
,
or
5,280
feet
.
Note:
☞
The
distance
called
a
mile
varies
greatly
in
different
countries
.
Its
length
in
yards
is
,
in
Norway
, 12,182;
in
Brunswick
, 11,816;
in
Sweden
, 11,660;
in
Hungary
, 9,139;
in
Switzerland
, 8,548;
in
Austria
, 8,297;
in
Prussia
, 8,238;
in
Poland
, 8,100;
in
Italy
, 2,025;
in
England
and
the
United
States
, 1,760;
in
Spain
, 1,552;
in
the
Netherlands
, 1,094.
Geographical mile
or
Nautical mile
,
one
sixtieth
of
a
degree
of
a
great
circle
of
the
earth
,
or
6080.27
feet
.
Mile run
.
Same
as
Train mile
.
See
under
Train
.
Roman mile
,
a
thousand
paces
,
equal
to
1,614
yards
English
measure
.
Statute mile
,
a
mile
conforming
to
statute
,
that
is
,
in
England
and
the
United
States
,
a
mile
of
5,280
feet
,
as
distinguished
from
any
other
mile
.
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►
From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
nautical
mile
n
1:
a
British
unit
of
length
equivalent
to
1,853.18
meters
(6,082
feet
) [
syn
:
naut mi
,
mile
,
mi
,
geographical
mile
,
Admiralty mile
]
2:
a
unit
of
length
used
in
navigation
;
equivalent
to
the
distance
spanned
by
one
minute
of
arc
in
latitude
; 1,852
meters
[
syn
:
mile
,
mi
,
naut mi
,
knot
,
international
nautical mile
,
air mile
]
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