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• Admiralty mile (noun)
  1. 1,853.184 meters a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet ; 800 feet longer than a statute mile
• Mile-High City (noun)
  1. the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river
• Roman mile (noun)
  1. an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
• Royal Mile
  1. the Royal Mile a line of old streets in Edinburgh which runs from the Castle to HOLYROOD PALACE
• Square Mile
  1. the Square Mile another name for the City of London (= the financial and banking centre of London), used especially in news reports. It is called this because the area of the City is about one square mile.
• Swedish mile (noun)
  1. a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
• Three Mile Island
  1. a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania in the US, where there was a serious accident in 1979. The people in charge managed to prevent a MELTDOWN (= when the nuclear material melts and burns through its containers), but the accident increased opposition to nuclear power in the US and prevented new power stations from being built.
• air mile (noun)
  1. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
• geographical mile (noun)
  1. 1,853.184 meters a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet ; 800 feet longer than a statute mile
• half mile (noun)
  1. a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile
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