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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 Ge·o·graph·ic Ge·o·graph·ic·al a.  Of or pertaining to geography.
 Geographical distribution. See under Distribution.
 Geographic latitude (of a place), the angle included between a line perpendicular or normal to the level surface of water at rest at the place, and the plane of the equator; differing slightly from the geocentric latitude by reason of the difference between the earth's figure and a true sphere.
 Geographical mile. See under Mile.
 Geographical variation, any variation of a species which is dependent on climate or other geographical conditions.

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 geographical mile
      n : a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters
          (6,082 feet) [syn: nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi,
           Admiralty mile]