English-Spanish translations for mile

• milla
  Las distancias en el Reino Unido se indican en millas, y las distancias de parada, en yardas. UK distances are in miles, with stopping distances in yards.
  Debemos conservar, al menos, las franjas de las 6/12 millas. We must preserve the six- and twelve- mile zones at least.
  Posteriormente, la Unión Europea los amplió a 200 millas. It was subsequently that the European Union extended it to 200 miles.

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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