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PRONUNCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE

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International nautical mile is a noun.
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WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nautical mile

The nautical mile is a unit of distance that is approximately one minute of arc measured along any meridian. By international agreement it has been set at 1,852 metres exactly. It is a non-SI unit used especially by navigators in the shipping and aviation industries, and also in polar exploration. It is commonly used in international law and treaties, especially regarding the limits of territorial waters. It developed from the sea mile and the related geographical mile. The nautical mile remains in use by sea and air navigators worldwide because of its convenience when working with charts. Most nautical charts use the Mercator projection whose scale varies by about a factor of six from the equator to 80° latitude, so charts covering large areas cannot use a single linear scale. The nautical mile is nearly equal to a minute of latitude on a chart, so a distance measured with a chart divider can be roughly converted to nautical miles using the chart's latitude scale. Graphic scale from a Mercator projection world map, showing the change with latitude...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE

Admiralty mile
air mile
chamomile
country mile
facsimile
food mile
four-minute mile
geographical mile
half-mile
mile
nautical mile
passenger mile
quarter mile
Roman mile
sea mile
simile
smile
statute mile
stick out a mile
Swedish mile

Synonyms and antonyms of international nautical mile in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «international nautical mile» into 25 languages

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The translations of international nautical mile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «international nautical mile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

国际海里
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

milla náutica internacional
570 millions of speakers

English

international nautical mile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंतरराष्ट्रीय समुद्री मील
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ميل بحري دولي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

международная морская миля
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

milha náutica internacional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আন্তর্জাতিক নটিক্যাল মাইল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mile nautique international
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mil nautika antarabangsa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

internationale nautische Meile
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

国際海里
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

국제 해상 마일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mil nautical internasional
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hải lý quốc tế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சர்வதேச கடல்வழி மைல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आंतरराष्ट्रीय नॉटिकल मैलाचे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Uluslararası deniz mili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

miglio nautico internazionale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

międzynarodowa mila
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

міжнародна морська миля
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

milă marină internațională
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διεθνές ναυτικό μίλι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

internasionale seemyl
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

internationell sjömil
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

internasjonal nautisk mil
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about international nautical mile

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE»

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Glossary of Mapping Science
SEE ALSO radar mile. mile, aeronautical - SEE mile, international nautical. mile, geographical - (1) The length of one minute of arc, measured along the equator of a rotational ellipsoid representing the Earth. Its value is determined by the ...
American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994
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Weights and measures standards of the United States: a brief ...
The International Nautical Mile The following announcement is quoted from the National Bureau of Standards Technical News Bulletin of August 1954. Adoption of International Nautical Mile Beginning on July 1, 1954, the National Bureau of ...
Lewis Van Hagen Judson, United States. National Bureau of Standards, 1976
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Dutton's Nautical Navigation
The "mile" commonly used by navigators is the international nautical mile ( abbreviated n mi or, sometimes, nm) of 2,000 yards (approximately) or 6,076.1 feet or 1.852 kilometers. (For short distances, a nautical mile and 2,000 yards are often ...
Benjamin Dutton, Thomas J. Cutler, 2004
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Encyclopedia of World Geography
As such, the nautical mile differs slightly from definitions of other miles including the international nautical mile, which was adopted by the International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference in 1929 at exactly 1,852 meters. Around since the ...
R. W. McColl, 2005
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Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI): ...
21 The value of this unit, 1 nautical mile = 1852 m, was adopted by the First International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference, Monaco, 1929, under the name "International nautical mile." 22 See Sec. B.5. To convert from to Multiply by mile ...
Barry Taylor, 1995
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 18, 1980:
This value was approved by the International Hydrographie Bureau in 1929, and has since been adopted by most maritime nations. It is often called the international nautical mile to distinguish it from slightly different values used by some ...
C.B. Bourne, 1980
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Definitions for the Law of the Sea: Terms Not Defined by the ...
... of different definitions of “mile”742 and resulting protests,743 even though differences can be relatively minute.744 Since 1959 the current international nautical mile has been 6076.115 feet or 1852 meters.745 Consolidated Glossary ¶¶ 49, ...
George K. Walker, 2011
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Case Studies in Oceanography and Marine Affairs: Prepared by ...
The (nautical) mile used here is the International Nautical Mile, the primary numerical definition of which is 1.852 km. The UK nautical mile (not used here) is slightly longer, being defined numerically as 6080 feet, which converts to 1.853 km.
Joan Brown, Gerry Bearman, 2013
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The Dream of the West, Pt II
With the yard-meter relationship then in use, the International Nautical Mile was equivalent to approximately 6,076.10333 feet. Using the yard-meter exact relationship of one yard equal to 0.9144 meter adopted by the United States on July 1, ...
Brian Lasater, 2008
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The international system of units (SI).
The conventional value given above was adopted by the First International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference, Monaco, 1929, under the name " International nautical mile". (*' This unit and its symbol were adopted by the CIPM in 1879 ...
International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 1977

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL MILE»

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Why is a ship's speed measured in knots?
In 1929, the international nautical mile was standardized at 6,076 feet; it was adopted by the United States in 1954. A nautical mile is different ... «History, May 14»
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Nautical facts of cruise life
The international nautical mile is a standard fixed length of 1 852 meters. Nautical Twilight This is the period in the morning and the evening ... «News24, May 13»

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