international mile

English

Etymology

From its origin as a compromise value at the 1959 conference among the Anglophone nations to establish a unified value for the yard and pound.

Noun

international mile (plural international miles)

  2. (units of measure) The present formal value of the mile as precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers, as opposed to other historic or informal values.
    Synonym: statute mile (UK)
    Hypernyms: land mile < mile
    Coordinate terms: geographical mile, nautical mile, sea mile
    Near-synonyms: survey mile, statute mile (US)
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