geographical mile

American  

noun

plural

geographical miles

1. a unit of distance defined as the length of one minute of latitude or longitude at the equator: approximately 1855 meters or 2029 yards.

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geographical mile British  

noun

1. a former name for nautical mile

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Example Sentences

To give an idea of the distances, I may mention that the post-stages were twelve Arabic miles asunder, which on this road are rather larger than an English geographical mile.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Indeed, in nautical parlance, the words knot and mile are synonyms, alluding to the geographical mile of 60′ to a degree of latitude.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Assuming every thousand fathoms roughly to represent a geographical mile, the area would be of nine square miles.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

On the surface of the earth, at the equator, each side of this polygon would be one-sixtieth of a geographical mile, or 101.46 feet.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

By geographical mile is here meant, I suppose, the nautical mile of sixty to an equatorial degree, or about 2,025 yards.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.