Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun international_nautical_mile

1 sense of international nautical mile

Sense 1
nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile -- (a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude)
       => nautical linear unit -- (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)