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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.
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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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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]