mi
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- noun
- /maɪ/
:
milla
- 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.
Blog text (5) -
A sign near the road indicates: "Middletown - 25 mi."
Fiction book (2000) -
Yes, it is a 7.5 mi (one way) trail.
Blog text (9) -
Starting out from the Summit Trail Trailhead, 3 mi to the Timpanooke T.H.
Blog text (9) -
Sidewalks adequately serve residents of the area if the residents are within 0.25 mi.
Academic text (2018) -
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.
Blog text (5) -
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.
Academic text (2018) -
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
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards, about 1,609 meters
A unit of distance equal to 5,280 feet or 1,609 meters
A unit of length equal to 1,609.344 meters used in the United States and the United Kingdom
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet used on land
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.