survey mile

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   a U.S. unit of measure equal to 1609.347 meters; derived from the use of 39.37 inches as the conversion for one meter

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Questions about survey mile

What does survey mile mean?

survey mile means "a U.S. unit of measure equal to 1609.347 meters; derived from the use of 39.37 inches as the conversion for one meter".

Is survey mile a common word?

survey 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.