air mile

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air mile

A unit of distance in air travel, equal to one international nautical mile (6,076.115 feet).

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air mile

(Units) another name for nautical mile¹

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in′terna′tional nau′tical mile′

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.

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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 latitude

international nautical mile, mile, naut mi, nautical mile, mi, knot

nautical linear unit - a linear unit of distance used in navigation

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