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A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the planet Earth. If you were to cut the Earth in half at the equator, you could pick up one of the halves and look at the equator as a circle. You could divide that circle into 360 degrees.
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Convert Nautical Miles to Statute Miles: ... BoatSafe.com; Home Page...
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Boating safety for kids ... Rodger from the United Kingdom asks: How was the nautical mile arrived at and why is the speed at sea called knots? Was there a means of determining the knot in bygone sailing days?
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nautical mile n. ( Abbr. nm ) A unit of length used in sea and air navigation, based on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle, especially ... The international nautical mile was defined by the First International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference, Monaco (1929) as exactly 1852 metres.[1] This is the...
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Definition of nautical mile in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of nautical mile. Pronunciation of nautical mile. Translations of nautical mile. nautical mile synonyms, nautical mile antonyms. Information about nautical mile in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... air mile, international nautical mile,
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Information about the term knot, and nautical mile. ... Knots and Nautical miles are good old navy terms. The nautical mile was based on the circumference of the earth at the equator. Since the earth is 360 degrees of longitude around, and degrees are broken into 60 so-called "minutes", that means there are 360 * 60 = 21...
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nautical mile (nmi, naut mi, n mile, or NM) a unit of distance used primarily at sea and in aviation. The nautical mile is defined to be the average distance on the Earth's surface represented by one minute of latitude. ... For many years the British set the nautical mile at 6080 feet (1853.188 meters), exactly 800 feet...
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