geographical mile

American  

noun

geographical miles plural

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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Inflected Forms

noun

• geographical miles
  plural

Example Sentences

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

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

This at first does not appear much; but is, nevertheless, a considerable tax, when it is remembered that seven wersts are only equal to a geographical mile, and that three horses are always used.

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

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.

Kladen informs us that the sedimentary matter transported to the sea by the Rhine would amount to a cubic geographical mile in five thousand years.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.