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mile (n)
- plural
- miles
English Definitions:
mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile, mi (noun)
a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile (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
mile (noun)
a large distance
"he missed by a mile"
sea mile, mile (noun)
a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty mile (noun)
a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
mile, Roman mile (noun)
an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
mile, mil, Swedish mile (noun)
a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
mile (noun)
a footrace extending one mile
"he holds the record in the mile"
mile (Noun)
A unit of measure (length or distance) equal to 5,280 feet (8 furlongs) in the U.S.Customary/Imperial system of measurements. One mile is equal to 1.609344 km.
mile (Noun)
A Roman unit of measure equal to 1000 (double) steps (mille passus or mille passuum) or 5000 Roman feet (approx. 1480m).
mile (Noun)
A track race of one mile in length; sometimes used to refer to the 1500m race.
mile (Noun)
A great distance.
mile (Noun)
One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
Mile
A mile is a unit of length most commonly equivalent to 5,280 feet. The mile of 5,280 feet is sometimes called the statute mile or land mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile. There have also been many historical miles and similar units in other systems that may be translated into English as miles; they have varied in length from 1 to 15 kilometres. The exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until the international yard and pound agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile of exactly 1,609.344 metres. The United States adopted this international mile for most purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some land-survey data, terming it the US survey mile. In the US, statute mile formally refers to the survey mile, about 3.219 mm longer than the international mile. Use of the mile as an official unit of measurement is now largely confined to the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.
Mile
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly 1,609.344 metres. With qualifiers, mile is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which continue to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes, but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a separate US survey mile (6336/3937 km) continues to see some use, although it was officially phased out in 2022. While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International System of Units (SI), the international mile continues to be used in some countries, such as Liberia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of countries with fewer than one million inhabitants, most of which are UK or US territories or have close historical ties with the UK or US.
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