international nautical mile

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international nautical mile - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  international nautical mile
      n 1: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters;
           historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of
           arc in latitude [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi
           , knot, international nautical mile, air mile]