| 单词 | international sea mile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinternational sea mile sea-mile n. (a) a unit equal to a minute of arc of a great circle of the earth; cf. geographical mile n. at geographical adj. Compounds; (b) (in full international sea mile) = nautical mile n. at nautical adj. and n. Compounds 2 ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > nautical mile geometrical1597 maritime mile1632 geometric1670 nautical mile1730 knot1748 nautic mile1762 sea-mile1796 air mile1919 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 530 Geographical Mile, which is the sea-mile or minute. 1871 R. A. Proctor Light Sci. 224 At the rate of three or four hundred sea-miles an hour. 1929 Rep. Proc. 1st Supplementary Internat. Hydrographic Conf. 217 The President suggested that the text be amended by the deletion of the word ‘called’. It would then read: ‘The length represented by 1852 times that of the international prototype of the metre shall be the international sea mile.’..(The proposal was adopted.) < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。