Lexic.us

Definition of Nautical mile

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

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

Definition of Nautical mile

1. Noun. (nautical) 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). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nautical Mile

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Literary usage of Nautical mile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Since the earth is not a perfect sphere, however, the degree varies in length and this has led to much confusion in usage regarding the nautical mile. ..."

2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The nautical mile is traditionally defined as t'i • length of a minute of arc of a great circle of ñ • earth ; but as this length varies in different ..."

3. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"In England the nautical mile ia 6.0HO feet. Mile« at мс'а are understood to be nautical ... but the distance covered may be one nautical mile or a thousand, ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The nautical mile or geographical mile has been defined as 1^60 part of the length of a degree of a great circle of the earth. ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"The nautical mile is in practice taken as feet, which value has been assigned to it by the British Admiralty, and which has been universally adopted. ..."

6. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1884)
"The weight of the entire insulation 400 Ibs. per nautical mile. ... Weight in Water, 14 cwt. per nautical mile. Breaking Strain, 7 tons 15 cwt., ..."

7. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1913)
"Total weight of dielectric per nautical mile 300 Ib. (73.4 ... Weight of completed cable, eight English tons per nautical mile (4.38 metric tons per km.). ..."

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