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mile
has definitions from the fields of sport,Roman antiquity
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[ noun ] a unit of length equal to 1760 yards
Synonyms Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)The particles traveled a maximum detected distance of some 450 miles . The maximum distance sampled was 23 miles from the source . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer_'s_Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A._J._Armstrong , occupied by a Mexican , his wife , and an old trapper . On May 19 , a deputy_sheriff 's posse of eight men left Maxwell_City and rode thirty-five miles up the Vermejo where they were joined by Juan_Jose_Martinez . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The drive along Massachusetts ' Route_128 , the by-pass which makes an arc about twenty miles from downtown Boston , may be a vision of the future . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological_conditions . Four_hundred and fifty pounds was disseminated while the ship was traveling a distance of 156 miles . The spraying operation was conducted from the rear deck of a small Naval vessel , cruising two miles off-shore and vertical to an on-shore breeze . Spraying continued along a two mile course . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (Roman antiquity) an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
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[ noun ] a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)
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[ noun ] a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)
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[ noun ] a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
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[ noun ] (sport) a footrace extending one mile
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