plural of passenger mile

(railways) A mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

plural of car mile

plural of survey mile

(units of measure) The present formal value of the mile as precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers, as opposed to other historic or informal values.

(units of measure) Various traditional Italian units of length, particularly the Genovese and Roman miles

plural of Italian mile

plural of land mile

(unit of measurement) Any of the various miles used to measure length on land, as opposed to the nautical mile.

(US) The mile of ⁶³³⁶⁄₃₉₃₇ kilometers employed by the United States prior to its adoption of the international mile by treaty in the 1950s.