Definitions for last mile
last mile

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1. last milenoun

   the last walk of a condemned person to the execution place

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1. 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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1. 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

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of last mile in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of last mile in a Sentence

1. Elhadj As Sy:

   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.

2. Megan Ranney:

   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.

3. Joe Trippi:

   He has to stay focused on vaccine distribution and solving the ‘last mile’ problem, failure is not an option. Losing that focus is not an option.

4. Harold Holland:

   We decided we want to walk the last mile together.

5. Ajay Kumar:

   Some of the people, officials, are not getting the alert, secondly, one thing that has come out from the drills is that the last mile connectivity is still missing. If (a) tsunami is coming, even now people don't know what is to be done, where to move.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=last mile
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Last_Mile
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=last mile