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	Mile
		Mile is the name of several units of length, mainly 1609 m on land and 1852 m at sea and in the air (for details see below).
		The U.S. survey mile or statute mile is precisely equal to 6336/3937 kilometres or 5280 U.S. survey feet, approximately 1609.347 metres.
		It is used universally for aviation, naval and maritime purposes and originated from the geographical mile.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Mile.html (313 words)

	Geographical mile: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The geographical mile is a unit of length determined by 1 minute of arc along the Earth's equator, approximately equal to 1855 metres (6087.15 international feet).
		The unit is not used much; it is closely related to the nautical mile, which was originally determined as 1 minute of arc along a great circle of the Earth and is nowadays defined to be exactly 1852 metres.
		The Danish and German geograpical mile (mil and Meile) is 4 minutes of arc, and was defined as 7421.5 metres by the astronomer Ole Rømer of Denmark.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ge/Geographical-mile.html (319 words)

	Wikinfo \| Mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mile is the name of several units of length; today, one mile is mainly equal to about 1609 metres on land and 1852 metres at sea and in the air, but see below for the details.
		In navigation, the geographical mile was commonly used, defined as 1 minute of arc along the Earth's equator, approximately equal to 1855 metres.
		The Ole Rømer mile was for a long time used as a sea mile in Scandinavia, but was in the middle of the 20th century replaced by the international nautical mile.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mile (522 words)

	Mile Summary
		A statute of the English parliament during the reign of Elizabeth I established the statute mile as eight furlongs or 1,760 yards; that is, 5,280 feet or 63,360 inches.
		The Dutch mile (the "Hollandic" mile), was nearly the 19th part of a degree (~5.8 kilometres).
		The German mile was reckoned to be the 15th part of a degree (and thus about four nautical miles in length or 6.4 kilometres).
	www.bookrags.com /Mile (2159 words)

	Nautical mile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A nautical mile or sea mile is a unit of length.
		The nautical mile was historically defined as a minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth.
		In the United States, the nautical mile was defined in the nineteenth century as 6080.2 ft (1853.249 m).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nautical_mile (879 words)

	mile - definition by dict.die.net
		Mill the tenth of a cent, Million.] A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
		Geographical, or Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of the earth, or 6080.27 feet.
		Statute mile, a mile conforming to statute, that is, in England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as distinguished from any other mile.
	dict.die.net /mile (175 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Knots and the Nautical Mile
		A Roman mile is therefore the equivalent of 4,850 feet, 1,615 yards, or 1,479 meters in modern dimensions.
		When the definition of the nautical mile was specified by international agreement, its value was based on this idealized Earth so that it is the average of one minute of arc in both the equatorial and polar planes.
		The nautical mile is therefore slightly shorter than the geographical mile and is defined precisely as 1,852 meters or 6,076.115 international feet.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/history/q0139.shtml (1239 words)

	Old Units of Length
		For example, the stadium, which was 1/8 of a Roman mile, or 202 yards, became the furlong, 1/8 of an English mile, or 220 yards.
		The English mile of 5280 feet is 1609 metre (a "metric mile" is, apparently 1500 metre).
		The nautical mile is 1852 metre, which corresponds to one minute of arc of latitude, approximately.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/tech/oldleng.htm (2464 words)

	Nautical Clocks(Page 3)
		The speed of a vessel at sea is reckoned by knots, each knot being equal to a nautical mile (6,076 feet), which is slightly longer than a mile measured on land (5,280 feet).
		Six nautical or geographical miles are about equal to seven statute English miles, so that a ship making 12 “knots” an hour is actually traveling at the rate of 14 statue miles per hour.
		At one end of this line the ‘log’, which is a piece of flat, light wood, generally triagular in shape, weighted along one edge, is attached, much in the same way as a boy fastens his kite to the string, so that it floats vertically, with it’s flat surface presented to the ship.
	www.bargain-resource.com /clock3.htm (298 words)

	Geographical Center of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Geographical Center of the United States (contiguous 48) is located about two miles northwest of Lebanon, Kansas.
		Take US Highway 281 north 1 mile, and turn west one mile on K-191 to the maker that has been erected at the end of the paved road.
		The actual center is about a half mile away in the center of a former hog farm.
	www.kansastravel.org /geographicalcenter.htm (90 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		] The study of economic conditions that are influenced by geographic factors.
		] The position of a point on the surface of the earth expressed in terms of geographical coordinates either geodetic or astronomical.
		in the same direction (right or left), so that the pattern of the search is an expanding square relative to a geographic point.
	www.accessscience.com /Dictionary/G/G8/DictG8.html (1199 words)

	Mathematical data for bibliographic descriptions of cartographic materials and spatial data
		When the calculation of a scale is dependent on a grid of geographic co-ordinates one should measure the distance between two succesive parallels (1Âº = 111.11 km or 60 nautical miles, 1Â´ = 1.85 km or 1 nautical mile) using a meridian, when possible in the middle of the map.
		The longitudinal measurement of 1Â° longitude at the equator is 111,324 kilometres or 60 nautical miles.
		In general 1 sea mile = 1 nautical mile = 1 geographical mile = 1 minute latitude or 1 minute longitude at the equator.
	www.kb.nl /skd/mathemat.html (3614 words)

	HantSMap, distances, scales, old english mile
		The earliest statutory definition of a mile in England is almost by accident.
		The miles was either 8 furlongs of 40 rods; or 5000 feet, the feet being natural feet, english or roman.
		He also used customary miles, for the distances to places off the road, and was quite honest about this, though he did not say what length these miles were.
	www.geog.port.ac.uk /webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/topics/oldmile.htm (1113 words)

	Meningar.com om mile. Mile, length, unit mm.
		nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile -- (a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters) 3...
		11 The term "statute mile" originated with Queen Elizabeth I who changed the definition of the mile from the Roman mile of 5000 feet to the statute mile of 5280 feet...
		Fifth Avenue is closed to traffic for the entire length of the mile, live bands, musicians and street performers create the biggest block party In New York where people are encouraged to explore the full range of museum offerings along the Mile...
	www.meningar.com /mile.html (1054 words)

	Observer Newspaper - Scene
		Born on the wrong side of 8 Mile, a geographical racial boundary in urban Detroit, Rabbit is a white man in a fl man's world.
		And, as with the rapper's albums that exploit defining and redefining his political content, "8 Mile" throws a number of sucker punches into the film to soften Eminem's angry straight white-boy persona such as Rabbit's undying affection for his younger sister and his rap-battle defense of a homosexual co-worker.
		In a society that truly has come to believe that white men are the source of all societal ills, impoverished white families can only be seen as being in their situation by a failing of their own.
	www.nd.edu /~observer/11212002/Scene/2.html (584 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Location, Location
		As a bridge between decimal and "four-based" measurements such as inches and feet, Gunter's chain permeates our treatment of length and area: 80 chains make a mile, 10 chains constitute a furlong, and a strip of land a chain wide by a furlong in length is precisely an acre.
		Thomas Jefferson, the young Virginia lawyer who emerged as one of the new republic's most influential thinkers, favored decimal measurement based on the geographical mile, defined as one minute of arc along a meridian -- approximately 6,086.4 English feet.
		As originally drafted, each hundred was 10 geographical miles on a side and bounded "by lines to be run and marked due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A1121-2003Jan30?language=printer (1108 words)

	The Old Farmer's Almanac - Which came first, the nautical mile or the standard mile, and why do they both exist?
		The nautical mile is the distance used in navigation and based on the length of one minute of arc taken along a great circle.
		The nautical mile is frequently confused with the geographical mile, which is equal to 1 minute of arc on the Earth's equator (6087.15 feet).
		On the ocean, distances are calculated slightly differently than on land, hence nautical miles are used, as opposed to land or statute miles.
	www.almanac.com /question/oneanswer.php?questionnumber=12468 (222 words)

	Chapter Geognost <i>to</i> Gerlind of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		any variation of a species which is dependent on climate or other geographical conditions.
		In a geographical manner or method; according to geography.
		The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1198/22774/1.html (336 words)

	Definition Of Mile
		The U.S. survey mile is precisely equal to 5280 U.S. survey feet or 6336/3937 kilometers or, approximately 1609.347 meters.
		One international mile is precisely equal to 0.999 998 survey mile.
		The international nautical mile is defined to be exactly 1852 meters.
	www.convertthis.com /converters/definitions/length/mile.aspx (162 words)

	Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use - G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Of a position in the earth's surface; the angle between a line to the center of the earth and the plane of the equator.
		Because the earth is approximately an oblate spheroid, rather than a true sphere, this differs from geographic latitude, the maximum difference being 11.6 minutes of arc at latitude 45 degrees.
		The geographical position of the sun is also called the subsolar point, of the moon the sublunar point, and of a star the substellar or subastral point.
	roland.lerc.nasa.gov /~dglover/dictionary/g.html (5751 words)

	Meteorological Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A basic equation in daytime visual range theory, relating the apparent luminance of a distant fl object, the apparent luminance of the background-sky above the horizon, and the extinction coefficient of the atmosphere.
		Closely related to the geographical mile which is defined as the length of one minute of arc on the earth's equator.
		It is sometimes referred to as a land mile.
	www.pmel.org /Meteorological-Glossary.htm (3162 words)

	TELEMET Weather Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The nautical mile is closely related to the geographical mile which is defined as the length of one minute of arc on the earth's equator.
		By international agreement, the nautical mile is now defined as 1852 meters.
		A series of Nansen-bottle water samples and associated temperature observations resulting from one release of a messenger.
	www.telemet.com /weather_gloss_n.htm (573 words)

	Definition: nautical mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		nautical mile (nmi): A unit of distance used in navigation and based on the length of one minute of arc taken along a great circle.
		Note 1: Because the Earth is not a perfect sphere, various values have been assigned to the nautical mile.
		Note 2: The nautical mile is frequently confused with the geographical mile, which is equal to 1 min of arc on the Earth's equator (6087.15 ft.).
	www.atis.org /tg2k/_nautical_mile.html (117 words)

	Kid and Teen Message Boards and Forums
		Cathie discovered that the earth is criss crossed with 'lines of force' xelectrical/magnetic) spaced at these intervals x7.5 minutes of arc or nautical miles) roughly aligned to the north-south poles, covering the whole earth, and at 90 degrees, running from east to west in the same fashion.
		Cathie drew attention to the fact that our measurement system using angles - degrees or minutes of arc - is linked geometrically to the 3-4-5 proportioned triangle and that this was not done arbitrarily, for it corresponds to the natural energy fields of the earth.
		If we convert this to ideal geographical miles xby multiplying it by 0.88x for 5280/6000 = 0.88) it is 6943.2.
	www.kidzworld.com /idealbb/view.asp?topicID=18374 (4440 words)

	AGO_1963-64_No_023 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		1221 (1950), there was a substantial body of opinion to the effect that the ownership of the continental shelf seaward from the coast line of the state to a distance of three geographical miles was in the state.
		Any State admitted subsequent to the formation of the Union which has not already done so may extend its seaward boundaries to a line three geographical miles distant from its coast line, or to the international boundaries of the United States in the Great Lakes or any other body of water traversed by such boundaries.
		1/A marine league is the equivalent of three geographical miles.
	www.atg.wa.gov /opinions/1963-64/opinion_1963-64_023.html (1519 words)

	Geona.com - mile - English Explanatory Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		a footrace extending one mile; "he holds the record in the mile"
		The distance called a mile varies greatly in different countries.
		a mile conforming to statute, that is, in England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as distinguished from any other mile.
	www.geona.com /dictionary?q=mile (341 words)

	Status of HB2491
		Removal of a minor child to a new residence within the State which is located within a 100 mile geographical radius of the residence of the child at the time of the initial custody judgment shall not require leave of court.
		Provides procedures for the court to determine the best interests of a child with regard to relocation of that child more than 100 miles from the child's residence at the time of the last custody order or at the time of the entry of Judgment, whether inside or outside the State of Illinois.
		Provides that the custodial parent or primary residential parent shall give 30 days notice of a proposed change of residence beyond 100 miles, with opportunity for the non-custodial or non-residential parent to object within 21 days of notice.
	www.ilga.gov /legislation/legisnet90/status/900HB2491.html (180 words)

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