English-Latvian translations for mile

• jūdze
  Saskaņā ar šo priekšlikumu gar visu krasta līniju, tostarp gar Antifer, tiks izveidota sešas jūdzes plata zona. Under this proposal there will be six miles of zoning along the entire coastline, including Antifer.
  Pašreiz mēs arī plānojam izmantot mūsu gaisa jūdzes komandējumos un mēs plānojam samazināt papīra patēriņu. We are now also going to be using our air miles on business flights and we are going to tackle paper consumption.
  2004. gada 13. februārī joprojām nenoskaidrotos apstākļos 7,5 jūras jūdzes no Bosfora nogrima kuģis ,,Hera” kopā ar 19 cilvēku apkalpi. On 13 February 2004, 7.5 nautical miles from the Bosporus, the ship 'Hera' sank with its entire crew of 19 on board, in circumstances which are still unexplained.

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

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