English-French translations for nautical mile

• mille marin
• nautique
  Celle-ci est limitée à 20 milles nautiques entre deux ports. This is limited to 20 nautical miles between two ports.
  Sur quelle autorité ces cartes ont-elles subitement abandonné les miles nautiques en faveur du kilomètre? On whose authority have nautical miles suddenly become kilometres on those maps?
  Celles-ci excluent la digue d'Antifer située à proximité d'Étretat mais élargissent par compensation le périmètre à 12 milles nautiques. These proposals exclude the Antifer dyke situated near Etretat, but compensate for it by enlarging the perimeter to 12 nautical miles.

Definition of nautical mile

• A unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet or 1.151 statute mile

Related words

• nautical
• astronautical
• aeronautical
• nautically
• aeronautically
• nautical chart
• nautical twilight
• nautical science
• nautical jargon