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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of distance in air travel, equal to one international nautical mile (6,076.115 feet).
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- noun A
unit ofdistance for airtransport ; equal to anautical mile .
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- noun a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
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