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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mile, Roman milenoun

    an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

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  1. Roman milenoun

    an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards (1481 meters, 4860 feet).

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  1. roman mile

    The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly 1,609.344 metres. With qualifiers, mile is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which continue to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes, but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a separate US survey mile (6336/3937 km) continues to see some use, although it was officially phased out in 2022. While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International System of Units (SI), the international mile continues to be used in some countries, such as Liberia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of countries with fewer than one million inhabitants, most of which are UK or US territories or have close historical ties with the UK or US.

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  1. roman mile

    A Roman mile is an ancient unit of length that was used in the Roman Empire and which originated from the distance covered by 1,000 Roman soldiers' steps or double steps (mille passus). It is accepted to be approximately 4,860 feet or about 1.48 kilometers – somewhat shorter than the modern mile which is approximately 5,280 feet or about 1.61 kilometers.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Roman mile in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Roman mile in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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