geographic mile
noun
geographic miles
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pluralof geographic mile.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Its length was about five hundred and fifty miles, and its breadth, from the mountains to the Pacific, from three hundred to three hundred and fifty geographic miles.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
THE western boundary of Egypt for a distance of more than a hundred geographic miles is composed of a wall of naked limestone hills about two hundred meters high, intersected by ravines.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
They lay at a distance of ten, fifteen, or twenty geographic miles from the Nile, and varied in size from a few to a few tens of square kilometres in area.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Alexander Glovatski
The latitude of Cape Constitution was overstated fifty-two geographic miles by Kane and thirty-one miles by Morton, while Kennedy Channel, instead of being thirty-five miles wide, ranges only from seventeen to twenty-five.
From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely
They lay at a distance of ten, fifteen, or twenty geographic miles from the Nile, and varied in size from a few to a few tens of square kilometers in area.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
