Assertion: nautical mile | /r/HasProperty | equal
Facets:
value: to 1.15078 miles
type: OTHER
value: to one minute of latitude
type: OTHER
value: to 1 nautical mile per hour
type: OTHER
value: to 6,076.12 feet
type: OTHER
value: to 1,852 meters
type: OTHER
value: by definition
type: OTHER
value: to one minute
type: TEMPORAL
value: nearly
type: DEGREE
value: mathematically
type: DEGREE
value: to 1852 m
type: OTHER
value: to exactly 1,852 metres
type: OTHER
value: broadly
type: DEGREE
value: technically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Technically, a nautical mile is equal to the length of one minute of arc in a great circle.
text: Nautical mile is measured based on the earth’s circumference and is equivalent to one minute of latitude.
text: Therefore, one knot is equal to 1.1508 statute miles per hour (1.1508 mph).
text: Thus 1 knot was equivalent to 1 nautical mile per hour; 5 knots were equivalent to 5 nautical miles per hour; etc.
text: One international nautical mile is equivalent to 1,852 meters or 1.151 statue miles.
text: After much international debate, it has been agreed that a nautical mile is equal to 6,076 feet (1,852 meters).
text: A nautical mile is distance unit used for both sea and air travel and is equal to 1.151 miles or 1,852 meters.
text: A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and is equal to one minute of latitude.
text: The nautical mile is equal to 1.15078 miles or 6,076.12 feet.
text: One nautical mile is equal to 1.15078 miles or 6,076.12 feet.
text: The nautical mile is nearly equal to a minute of latitude on a chart, so a distance measured with a chart divider can be roughly converted to nautical miles using the chart's latitude scale.
text: Since a nautical mile is defined as the distance of 1 minute of latitude, it turns out that 1 nautical mile is equal to 1.15 statute miles.
text: A nautical mile is a unit of distance that is used on the water; it is equal to 1.15 miles or one minute (1/60 of a degree) of longitude.
text: The articles states that 1 nautical mile is equal to 1.1507794 geographical mile.
text: Yet, the geographical mile article states that geographical mile is 1855 meters, which means that 1 nautical mile is equal to 1852/1855 = 0.9984 geographical mile.
text: Changed, I assume that one nautical mile is equal to 0,9984 geographical mile (according to the [Geographical mile] definition).
text: That is why the article said, correctly, that "The nautical mile is nearly equal to a minute of latitude on a chart".
text: One nautical mile is equal to 1852 m, by definition.
text: According to the definition adopted in England and the United States, the nautical mile is equal to the length of one minute of arc of a great circle on a spherical earth assumed to have the same area as Clarke's ellipsoid.
text: "A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and is equal to one minute of latitude.
text: A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth and is equal to one minute of latitude.
text: A nautical mile is a unit of distance that is used on the water; it is equal to 1.15 miles or one minute (1/60 of a degree) of longitude.
text: A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and is equal to one minute of latitude.
text: One nautical mile is equal to a single arc minute of a line of longitude.
text: A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and it is equal to one minute of latitude.
text: A nautical mile is equal to 1.16 standard miles.
text: The key is that 60 nautical miles equals one degree of latitude (one degree of longitude at the equator) or one nautical mile is equal to one minute of latitude (or one minute of longitude at the equator).
text: A nautical mile is equal to exactly 1,852 metres
text: Also you are frequently dealing with converting degrees/minutes/seconds to distances, where the nautical mile is equivalent to 1 minute of arc (of latitude).
text: The nautical mile is broadly equivalent to a minute of latitude, and you measure that as you come down a meridian, which, as you say, is a line of longitude.
text: A nautical mile is equivalent to 1,852 meters while a mile is equivalent to 1,609.344 meters.
text: Mathematically, one knot is equal to about 1.15 statute miles.
text: This is why 1 knot is equal to 1 nautical mile per hour.
text: Thus 1 knot was equivalent to 1 nautical mile per hour; 5 knots were equivalent to 5 nautical miles per hour; etc.