| 单词 | nautical distance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnautical distance nautical distance n. the distance between two points on the earth's surface measured along the rhumb line joining them. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > rhumb-line distance nautical distance1834 1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Navigation i. ii. §12 The lines which make with the meridian lines the angles called courses are called nautical distances. 1965 Internat. Migration Digest 2 194 The Polynesians built amazingly seaworthy craft and planned and carried out trips and colonizations over longer nautical distances than most other peoples in the world. 1994 Evolution 48 1883/1 Distance between localities was measured as the shortest nautical distance between localities reckoned from 1,000,000:1 scale maps. < as lemmas |
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