mi
1. a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile • Syn: nautical mile, naut mi, mile, geographical mile, Admiralty mile • Derivationally related forms: miler (for: mile) • Hypernyms: nautical linear unit 2. 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, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile • Derivationally related forms: miler (for: mile) • Hypernyms: nautical linear unit 3. a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters • Syn: mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile • Derivationally related forms: miler (for: mile) • Hypernyms: linear unit, linear measure • Part Holonyms: league • Part Meronyms: furlong, half mile, 880 yards, quarter mile, 440 yards 4. the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization • Hypernyms: solfa syllable
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