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air mile
air milen. A unit of distance in air travel, equal to one international nautical mile (6,076.115 feet).air mile n (Units) another name for nautical mile1 in′terna′tional nau′tical mile′
n. a unit of distance at sea or in the air equal to 1.852 kilometers, based on the distance of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth, and used in the U.S. since 1959. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | air mile - a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitudeinternational nautical mile, mile, naut mi, nautical mile, mi, knotnautical linear unit - a linear unit of distance used in navigation |
air mile
air mile[′er ‚mīl] (navigation) A unit of length used in air navigation and equal, since 1954, to 1 international nautical mile (1852 meters). Also known as aeronautical mile. air mile
Related to air mile: AeroplanSynonyms for air milenoun a unit of length used in navigationSynonyms- international nautical mile
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- naut mi
- nautical mile
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- knot
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