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NAUTICAL LINEAR UNIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nautical linear unit mean?
• NAUTICAL LINEAR UNIT (noun)
The noun NAUTICAL LINEAR UNIT has 1 sense:
1. a linear unit of distance used in navigation
Familiarity information: NAUTICAL LINEAR UNIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A linear unit of distance used in navigation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("nautical linear unit" is a kind of...):
linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nautical linear unit"):
air mile; international nautical mile; mi; mile; naut mi; nautical 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)
Admiralty mile; geographical mile; mi; mile; naut mi; nautical mile (a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile)
mile; sea mile (a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters))
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