NOUN
- a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
How To Use nautical mile In A Sentence
- Maritime Claims (as measured from claimed archipelagic baselines) Territorial sea to 12 nautical miles; contiguous zone to 24 nautical miles; exclusive economic zone to 200 nautical miles; continental shelf to 200 nautical miles or to the outer edge of the continental margin. Trinidad and Tobago
- Profit-making fish such as pomfret have gone 12 to 14 nautical miles away, so men go far into the sea. The Hindu - Front Page
- No rubbish should be dumped within three nautical miles of the coast. Times, Sunday Times
- Sometimes called the Northeast Passage, the circumpolar route is a network of sea lanes across the top of continental Eurasia which crosses Russian waters from the Kara Gate to the Bering Strait and trims some 4,000 nautical miles off southern routes. Reuters: Press Release
- Ships sortieing from the west coast would be adding 2,000 nautical miles to their patrols into the Pacific just to get to Hawaii.
- Barrier Reef, This trip was out to Charlie's bommie, a small remote reef about 75 nautical miles (150 Kilometres) from Mackay. WN.com - Business News
- Big, large, Monster Cod, just massive!! by Sally!! www. reefari.com Big monster cod by Sally on a recent three day fishing charter to the Great Barrier Reef, This trip was out to Charlie's bommie, a small remote reef about 75 nautical miles (150 Kilometres) from Mackay. WN.com - Business News
- The figures were based on a plane flying 6,000 nautical miles with 250 passengers on board. Times, Sunday Times
- A minute is a nautical mile, the measurable fragment of an arc. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
- The second area is between Christmas Rock and Gxulu River Mouth extending three nautical miles seawards from the high-water mark.