English-Danish translations for mile

• mil
  Det var først senere, at EU udvidede den til 200 sømil. It was subsequently that the European Union extended it to 200 miles.
  Hvem har givet tilladelse til, at sømil nu pludselig er blevet til kilometer på disse kort? On whose authority have nautical miles suddenly become kilometres on those maps?
  6- og 12-sømilegrænserne skal stadfæstes permanent. The 6- and 12-mile limits must be confirmed permanently.

Definition of mile

• The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards
• Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet
• Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese or Arabic mile (al-mīl
• Any similarly large distance
• A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters
• One mile per hour, as a measure of speed

Examples

• The shot missed by a mile
• The runners competed in the mile
• five miles over the speed limit

Related words

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