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Mile vs Kilometers - What's the difference?

mile | kilometers |

As a proper noun mile

is mili atoll.

As a noun kilometers is

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mile

English

(wikipedia mile)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A unit of measure (length or distance) equal to 5,280 feet (8 furlongs) in the U.S.Customary/Imperial system of measurements. One mile is equal to 1.609344 km. ref
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  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
  • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • A Roman unit of measure equal to 1000 (double) steps (mille passus or mille passuum) or 5000 Roman feet (approx. 1480m).
  • A track race of one mile in length; sometimes used to refer to the 1500 m race.
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  • (lb) A great distance.
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  • (lb) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
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  • Derived terms

    * air mile * country mile * * metric mile * nautical mile * sea mile * ton mile

    See also

    * mileage * milepost * milestone * miles per gallon * mpg

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    kilometers

    English

    Noun

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