| 单词 | route-mile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroute-mile route-mile n. a mile-long section of a route maintained or operated by a certain business, government department, etc.; esp. a mile-long section of a transportation route. ΚΠ 1880 Sixth Ann. Rep. Board Railroad Commissioners (Iowa) 350 Route 27,012, between Clinton, Iowa, and La Crescent, Minn.;..$70.97 per route mile per year. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 824/2 The [railway] rebuilding process is constant... In Europe the average route-mile capital is £27,036. 1959 J. R. Meyer Econ. Competition in Transportation Industry (1976) iv. 88 Geographical [trucking] firm size as measured by number of route miles operated. 1989 Network World 13 Feb. 6/5 WillTel's network..consists of 6,400 route miles of fiber lines and 800 route miles of microwave links. 1991 Mod. Railways Apr. 188/1 Its full proposed network would total about 18,500 route-miles. 2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. ii. 28 Many of these miles lie in parallel, to support the local/express system—only 230 distinct ‘route miles’ exist. < as lemmas |
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