mi
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- noun
- /maɪ/
- During our road trip, we traveled over 500 mi in just two days.
Examples
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The marathon course was exactly 26.2 mi long, which is the standard distance for this race.
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You will find the aqueduct five kilometers (3 mi) from the village in the middle of wild fields and villas.
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A sign near the road indicates: "Middletown - 25 mi."
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Yes, it is a 7.5 mi (one way) trail.
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Starting out from the Summit Trail Trailhead, 3 mi to the Timpanooke T.H.
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Sidewalks adequately serve residents of the area if the residents are within 0.25 mi.
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The overall area of the lake is 10 sq km (3.9 sq mi).
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Pegoes Aqueduct is situated 2 km (1.2 mi) outside the town of Tomar, in central Portugal.
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If 70 percent of Starkville's residents were within 0.25 mi of the sidewalk infrastructure, the community is considered adequately served by the sidewalk infrastructure.
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A 0.25 mi buffer from Starkville sidewalks was generated, and the Census blocks were clipped to that buffer.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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A measure of distance equal to 1,609 meters used for roads in the US and UK
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A unit of distance equal to 5,280 feet or 1,609 meters
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A unit of length equal to 1,609.344 meters used in the United States and the United Kingdom
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A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet used on land
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards, about 1,609 meters
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mi is short for mile, which comes from the Latin mille meaning 'thousand' because a Roman mile was about a thousand steps, so think 'a thousand steps' to remember it. So mi is used as the short form for this distance.