sea mile

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sea mile

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As a former Scandinavian unit of distance, a calque of Danish sømil, Norwegian Bokmål sjømil, and Swedish sjömil, from Danish sø (“sea, nautical, maritime”) + mil (“Danish mile or league”).

noun sea miles · sea-mile · seamile

Synonym of nautical mile, a unit of distance now equal to exactly 1852 meters
Similar: nautical mile
historical A former version of the nautical mile in Scandinavia equal to 4 minutes of arc or about 4 nmi.
Similar: nautical mile

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@misc{sea_mile_2026,
  title = {sea mile},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sea%20mile},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}