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Definition of Sea mile
1. Noun. A former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters).
Definition of Sea mile
1. Noun. a nautical mile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea mile
1. A geographical mile. See Mile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Mile
Literary usage of Sea mile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"This practice of measuring a ship's rate of sailing is founded upon the following
principle : That the length of each knot is the same part of a sea mile, ..."
2. The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper by Arthur Hamilton Clark (1910)
"The sea mile or knot is one sixtieth of a degree of latitude; ... In this book
the word mile means a sea mile and not a geographical or statute mile. ..."
3. The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper by Arthur Hamilton Clark (1910)
"The sea mile or knot is one sixtieth of a degree of latitude; ... In this book
the word mile means a sea mile and not a geographical or statute mile. ..."
4. Report of the Sixth International Geographical Congress: Held in London, 1895 (1896)
"The mile is sometimes called Greek sea-mile, sometimes Italian-Greek, or common
Italian nautical mile. It is about 4150 feet long ; that is, of almost the ..."
5. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1878)
"A geographical mile, or sixtieth part of a degree, termed also a sea mile or
nautical mile. The Admiralty knot or mile is ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The sea mile tallied with that of writers on shore, until the measures of Picard,
... By the time of Dr. Bernard however we find the sea mile described as ..."
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