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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• geographical miles
  plural

Example Sentences

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geographical mile

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.

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

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

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