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Nautical
·adj Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill. ...

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nautical
Relating to navigation, sailors, or maritime affairs in general. ...

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mile
mile, mīlēsĭmus, etc., v. mille, millesimus, etc. ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Mile
·noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles ...

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Mile
(from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the...

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mile
Often in the singular with a ntlnleral, instead of the plural miles. Mr. Hartshorne, in his Glossary...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
mile
The statute mile is 5280 feet; but that used at sea, termed the mean nautic mile, consists of 6075·6...

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Mile
a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards-4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English...

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nautical almanac
A book of the first necessity to navigators. (See ephemeris.) ...

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nautical assessors
Persons of nautical experience appointed to assist the judge of the admiralty and other courts in te...

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nautical astronomy
That part of the celestial science which treats of the planets and stars so far as relates to the pu...

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nautical day
This day commences at noon, twelve hours before the civil day, and ends at noon of the day following...

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nautical stars
About 72 of the brightest, which have been selected for determining the latitude or the longitude, b...

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nautical tables
Those especially computed for resolution of matters dependent on nautical astronomy, and navigation ...

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Car mile
·add. ·- A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the averag...

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Passenger mile
·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a give...

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Sea mile
·- A geographical mile. ·see <<Mile>>. ...

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Three-mile
·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine bel...

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Ton mile
·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given ...

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Traffic mile
·add. ·- Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's ...

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welch mile
Like a Welch mile, long and narrow. His story is like a Welch mile, long and tedious. ...

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minute mile
The sixtieth part of a degree of longitude or latitude; in the latter case it is the sixtieth part o...

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