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INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does international nautical mile mean?
• INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE (noun)
The noun INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE has 1 sense:
1. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
Familiarity information: INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
air mile; international nautical mile; mi; mile; naut mi; nautical mile
Hypernyms ("international nautical mile" is a kind of...):
nautical linear unit (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)
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