international nautical mile

1. 1.

   a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

   Synonymsnautical milemileminaut miair mile

   Broadernautical linear unit

Questions about international nautical mile

What does international nautical mile mean?

international nautical mile means "a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude".

What is another word for international nautical mile?

Close synonyms include nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, air mile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is international nautical mile a common word?

international nautical mile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.