nautical mile

Questions about nautical mile

What does nautical mile mean?

nautical mile means "a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for nautical mile?

Close synonyms include naut mi, mile, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty 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 nautical mile a common word?

nautical mile is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.