plural of mile-fortlet

A unit of measure used in Sweden and other parts of Scandinavia, today with a length of 10 kilometres, but formerly with different values.

A basic unit used by transport companies for calculating profit levels etc. It is calculated by multiplying total distance travelled in a given period by the number of passengers.

A length of one nautical mile, the limits of which have been accurately measured and are indicated by ranges ashore. It is used by ships to calibrate logs, revolution counters, etc. as well as to measure the ship's speed.

A distance in international athletics (particularly track), the 1500 meter race, being about a mile (~1609 meters).

(transport) A unit of measure of passenger carrying capacity, equal to the number of seats available multiplied by the number of miles flown.

A li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 Chinese feet or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).

(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.

(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.

(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.