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

Mr. Kendall and I were employed in measuring a geographical mile on the small lake, preparatory to a series of observations on the velocity of sound.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

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

Between 82� and 81� we came into our old marks of the second depot journey; on that trip we had marked this distance with splinters of packing-case at every geographical mile.

From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Chater, Arthur G.

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.

As he often zigzagged, the geographical mile represented considerably, more.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden