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last mile
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Princeton's WordNet
last milenoun
the last walk of a condemned person to the execution place
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last milenoun
The portion of the infrastructure that carries communication signals from the main system to the end users' home or business.
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last mile
In telecommunication and supply chain management, "last mile" refers to the final leg of delivering a product or service to a customer's location. This includes activities such as transporting goods from a warehouse to a customer's home, or delivering internet services from a provider to a user's device. It is often the most complex and cost-intensive part of the process due to factors like distance, quantity, and specific location details.
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Last mile
The "last mile" or "last kilometer" is a phrase used by the telecommunications, cable television and internet industries to refer to the final leg of the telecommunications networks delivering communications connectivity to retail customers; the part that actually reaches the customer. Examples are the copper wire subscriber lines connecting telephones to the local telephone exchange, coaxial cable service drops carrying cable television signals from utility poles to subscriber's homes, and cell towers linking local cell phones to the cellular network. The word "mile" is used metaphorically; the length of the "last mile" link may be more or less than a mile. Because the last mile of a network to the user is also the first mile from the user to the world when he is sending data, the term "first mile" is sometimes used. The last mile is typically the speed "bottleneck" in communication networks; its bandwidth limits the bandwidth of data that can be delivered to the customer. This is because retail telecommunication networks have the topology of "trees"; with relatively few high capacity "trunk" communication channels branching out to feed many final mile "leaves". The final mile links, as the most numerous and thus most expensive part of the system, are the most difficult to upgrade to new technology. For example, telephone trunklines that carry phone calls between switching centers are modern optical fiber, but the "last mile" twisted pair telephone wiring that provides service to customer premises has not changed much in 100 years.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of last mile in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of last mile in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of last mile in a Sentence
For the initiative to succeed, you need an entire ecosystem to develop, there has to be last-mile connectivity from devices to software, to languages to people and there has to be education.
We decided we want to walk the last mile together.
There is a recognition of those who are on the frontline, they are they in places where there is no doctor, no school, where women have to walk the last mile to the water point, often paved with danger.
24/7 operations - it's an improvement, but it doesn't matter if it's a port in Los Angeles or Long Beach, or the last mile of delivery from a train to a warehouse in Wichita. You're going to have to have a driver and a truck move that freight.
Right now, the issue is not so much supply, but it's actually that last mile of getting (vaccines) from the distribution sites to, actually, people's arms, if we have more supply, that's not actually solving for the right problem.
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- الميل الأخيرArabic
- sidste kilometerDanish
- letzte MeileGerman
- última millaSpanish
- dernier kilomètreFrench
- आखरी मीलHindi
- ultimo miglioItalian
- ラストマイルJapanese
- postremo milleLatin
- laatste mijlDutch
- siste milNorwegian
- última milhaPortuguese
- последней милиRussian
- கடைசி மைல்Tamil
- ไมล์สุดท้ายThai
- son milTurkish
- 最後一英里Chinese
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