Definitions for nautical mile
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1. nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty milenoun

   a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

2. nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air milenoun

   a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

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1. nautical milenoun

   A unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet).

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1. Nautical mile

   A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude. Today the international nautical mile is defined as exactly 1,852 metres (6,076 ft; 1.151 mi). The derived unit of speed is the knot, one nautical mile per hour.

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1. nautical mile

   A nautical mile is a unit of measurement used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. It is equivalent to one minute of latitude and approximately equal to 1.1508 statute miles or 1.852 kilometers. It's based on the circumference of the earth and is used by sailors and aviation professionals worldwide.

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1. Nautical mile

   The nautical mile is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude measured along any meridian, or about one minute of arc of longitude at the equator. By international agreement it has been set at 1,852 metres exactly. It is a non-SI unit used especially by navigators in the shipping and aviation industries, and also in polar exploration. It is commonly used in international law and treaties, especially regarding the limits of territorial waters. It developed from the sea mile and the related geographical mile. The nautical mile remains in use by sea and air navigators worldwide because of its convenience when working with charts. Most nautical charts use the Mercator projection whose scale varies by about a factor of six from the equator to 80° latitude, so charts covering large areas cannot use a single linear scale. The nautical mile is nearly equal to a minute of latitude on a chart, so a distance measured with a chart divider can be roughly converted to nautical miles using the chart's latitude scale.

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1. nautical mile

   A measure of distance equal to one minute of arc on the Earth

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1. nautical mile

   6075·6 feet.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nautical mile in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nautical mile in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of nautical mile in a Sentence

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   (B)y limiting the USS Lassen's transit to an 'innocent passage,' the U.S. is implicitly recognizing that China is entitled to a 12 nm (nautical mile) territorial sea around its artificial island on Subi Reef.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nautical mile
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nautical_Mile
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_Mile
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=nautical mile
6. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=nautical mile