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  2. List of nautical units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Speed: League: Length: Nautical mile: Length: Rhumb: Angle: The angle between two successive points of the thirty-two point compass (11 degrees 15 minutes) (rare) [1] Shackle: Length: Before 1949, 12.5 fathoms; later 15 fathoms. [2] Toise: Length: Toise was also used for measures of area and volume Twenty-foot equivalent unit or TEU: Volume

  3. Knot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    1 nautical mile per hour (by definition), 1 852.000 metres per hour (exactly), [5] 0.51444 metres per second (approximately), 1.15078 miles per hour (approximately), 20.25372 inches per second (approximately) 1.68781 feet per second (approximately). The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is 1 852 m.

  4. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    From 1630 to 1718 a millia was 5,564 feet (1,696 metres), making a geographical league of four millias equal 22,256 feet (6,784 m or 3.663 modern nautical miles). But from 1718 through the 1830s the millia was defined as the equivalent of just over 5,210 feet, giving a shorter geographical league of just over 20,842 feet (6,353 m or 3.430 ...

  5. Nautical mile - Wikipedia

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    A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).

  6. 5K challenge: How to walk or run 3 miles in just 6 weeks - AOL

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    Week 6: 1-mile speed, 1-mile walk, 1.2-mile speed. Intermediate: Walk/run a 5K. Start TODAY 6-week 5k training plan, walk/run ... To start, stand with your feet as wide as your shoulders. Place ...

  7. Fathom - Wikipedia

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    The British Admiralty defined a fathom to be a thousandth of an imperial nautical mile (which was 6080 ft) or 6.08 feet (1.85 m). In practice the "warship fathom" of exactly 6 feet (1.8 m) was used in Britain and the United States. [ 11 ]

  8. Data mile - Wikipedia

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    In radar-related subjects and in JTIDS, a data mile is a unit of distance equal to 6,000 feet (1,829 metres; 0.9875 nautical miles; 1.136 miles). An international mile is 0.88 data mile. The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second (983,571,056 ft/s), or about one foot per nanosecond .

  9. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    The top speed of a sloth. 10 −1: 0.2778: 1: 0.6214: 9.2657 × 10 −10: 1 km/h. 0.44704: 1.609344: 1: 1.4912 × 10 −9: 1 mph. 0.5144: 1.852: 1.151: 1.716 × 10 −9: 1 knot (nautical mile per hour) 10 0: 1.2: 4.32: 2.68: 4 × 10 −9: Typical scanning speed of an audio compact disc; the speed of signals (action potentials) traveling along ...