nautical linear unit

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   a linear unit of distance used in navigation

   Broaderlinear unit

   Narrowernautical milesea mile

Questions about nautical linear unit

What does nautical linear unit mean?

nautical linear unit means "a linear unit of distance used in navigation".

Is nautical linear unit a common word?

nautical linear unit 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.