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-as of [25 MARCH 2024]–
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*1609.344 METERS*
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*5280 FEET*
*1760 YARDS*
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-the [mile] is an english ‘unit of length’ of ‘linear measure’ equal to 5,280 feet (or 1,760 yards)–
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*standardized as exactly ‘1,609.344 meters’ by ‘international agreement’ in ‘1959’*
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(or to be even more ‘american’, 17.6 ‘football fields’)
(or 4 laps around the track)
(“1 lap” = 440 yards)
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(with ‘qualifiers’, “mile” is also used to ‘describe’ or ‘translate’ a wide range of ‘units’ derived from or roughly equivalent to the “roman mile”, such as…)
the “nautical mile” (now 1.852 km exactly), the “italian mile” (roughly 1.852 km), and the “chinese mile” (now 500 m exactly))
(the romans divided their ‘mile’ into ‘5,000 feet’ but the greater importance of ‘furlongs’ in ‘pre-modern england’ meant that the ‘statute mile’ was made equivalent to ‘8 furlongs’ or ‘5,280 feet’ in 1593)
(this form of the ‘mile’ then spread to the british-colonized nations who continue to employ the ‘mile’)
(the “US Geological Survey” now employs the ‘metre’ for official purposes but legacy data from its “1927 geodetic datum” has meant that a separate ‘US survey mile’ (6336/3937 km) continues to see some use)
(while most countries replaced the ‘mile’ with the ‘kilometre’ when switching to the “international system of units”, the ‘international mile’ continues to be used in some countries, such as ‘liberia’, ‘myanmar’, the ‘united kingdom’, the ‘united states’, and a number of countries with less than a million inhabitants, most of which are ‘UK’ or ‘US’ territories, or have close historical ties with the ‘UK’ or ‘US’)
(the ‘mile’ was usually abbreviated m. in the past but is now sometimes written as mi to avoid confusion with the ‘SI metre’; road signs in the ‘united kingdom’ continue to use m as the abbreviation for ‘mile’)
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(derived units such as “miles per hour” and “miles per gallon”, however, continue to be universally abbreviated as mph, mpg, and so on)
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