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A road sign to the Isle of Skye, Scotland, with distances in miles and the wording in Scottish Gaelic and English. (The solidus does not appear in fractions on British road signs.)
A mile is a unit of length, most commonly 5,280 feet (1,760 yards, or about 1,609 meters). The mile of 5,280 feet is sometimes called the statute mile or land mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile (1,852 metres, about 6,076.1 feet).[1] There have also been many historical miles and similar units in other systems that may be translated into English as miles; they have varied in length from 1 to 15 kilometres.
The exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until the international yard and pound agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile of exactly 1,609.344 metres. The United States adopted this international mile for most purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some land-survey data, terming it the US survey mile. In the US, statute mile formally refers to the survey mile, about 3.219 mm (⅛ inch) longer than the international mile (the international mile is exactly 0.0002% less than the US survey mile).
Use of the mile as a unit of measurement is now largely confined to the United Kingdom,[2] the United States,[3] and Canada.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
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Contents
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Roman mile
- 3 Historical miles in the Arabic world and Europe
- 4 Historical miles in Britain and Ireland
- 4.1 Scots mile
- 4.2 Irish mile
- 5 Statute mile
- 6 Metric mile
- 7 Nautical mile
- 7.1 Related nautical units
- 8 Abbreviation and symbol
- 9 Grid system
- 10 Idioms
- 11 See also
- 12 Notes
- 13 References
- 14 External links
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Etymology
The word mile originally derives from the Old English word mīl which in turn was ultimately derived from the Latin word millia meaning "thousand".[10] The English mile is derived from the Latin mille passuum (one thousand paces) but in other countries the word "mile" (meile in German, mijl in Dutch) was derived from the Latin miliarium spatium (one thousand "intervals").[11]
Various historic miles/leagues from a German textbook dated 1848 (given in feet, metres and fractions of a meridian
Roman mile
The Romans were first to use the unit of long distance mille passuum (literally "a thousand paces" in Latin, where each pace or stride was two steps). It denoted a distance of 1,000 paces or 5,000 Roman feet, and is estimated to be about 1,479 metres (1,617 yards). This unit, now known as the Roman mile,[12] spread throughout the Roman Empire, often with modifications to fit local systems of measurements.
Historical miles in the Arabic world and Europe
- The Arab mile (or Arabic mile) was a unit of length used by medieval Muslim geographers. Its precise length is uncertain, but is believed to be around 1925 metres.[citation needed]
- The Danish mil (traditional) was 24,000 Danish feet or 7532.5 metres. Sometimes it was interpreted as exactly 7.5 kilometres. It is the same as the north German Meile (below).[13]
- The Meile was a traditional unit in German-speaking countries. It was 24,000 German feet; the SI equivalent was 7586 metres in Austria or 7532.5 metres in northern Germany. There was a version known as the geographische Meile, which was 4 Admiralty nautical miles, 7,412.7 metres, or 1/15 of a degree of latitude.[14]
- The Hungarian mile (magyar) mérföld was the traditional unit in Hungary, equal to 8353.6 m (old times sometimes varied between 8937.4 m and 8379.0 m)
- In Norway and Sweden, a mil is a unit of length equal to 10 kilometres and commonly used in everyday language. However in more formal situations, such as on road signs and when there is risk of confusion with English miles, kilometres are used instead. The traditional Swedish mil spanned the range from 6000–14,485 metres, depending on province. It was however standardized in 1649 to 36,000 Swedish feet, or 10.687 km.[13] The Norwegian mil was 11.298 kilometres. When the metric system was introduced in the Norwegian-Swedish union in 1889, it standardized the mil to exactly 10 kilometres.[13] Mil is still commonly used when measuring fuel consumption in vehicles; e.g., 0.5 litre per mil.
- The Portuguese milha was a unit of length used in Portugal and Brazil, before the adoption of the metric system. It was equal to 2087.3 metres.[15]
- The Russian mile (russkaya milya (русская миля)) was a traditional Russian unit of distance, equal to 7 verst, or 7.468 km.
- The hrvatska milja (Croatian mile) is 11,130 metres = 11.13 km: the length of an arc of the equator subtended by 1/10 of a degree,[16] first used by Jesuit Stjepan Glavač on a map from 1673.
- The banska milja (also called hrvatska milja) (mile of Croatian Ban, Croatian mile) was 7586 metres = 7.586 kilometres, or 24,000 feet (the same as the Austrian mile).[17]
Historical miles in Britain and Ireland
The statute mile (1593) of Elizabeth I was not the only definition of the mile in Britain and Ireland. Perhaps the earliest tables of English linear measures, Arnold's Customs of London (c. 1500) indicates a mile consisted of 8 furlongs, each of 625 feet, for a total of 5000 feet (1666⅔ yards, 0.947 statute miles, 1524 metres):[18] this is the same definition of the mile in terms of feet as used by the Romans. The "old English" mile of medieval and early modern times appears to have measured about 1.3 statute miles (1.9 km).[19] The 17th century cartographer, Robert Morden, had multiple scales on his maps—for example, his map of Hampshire showed two different miles that had a ratio of 1 : 1.23[20] and his map of Dorset had three scales with a ratio of 1 : 1.23 : 1.41.[21] In both cases, the smallest mile appears to be the statute mile.
Scots mile
The Royal Mile in Edinburgh is roughly a Scots mile long.
The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, i.e., from the Castle down to Holyrood Abbey, is approximately the same length as the Scots mile.[22] English miles were imposed in 1824 by an Act of Parliament.
Equivalent to:
- Scottish measures: 320 falls; or 8 Scots furlongs
- Metric system: 1.81 km
- Imperial system: 1,976 yards (about 1.12 miles)
Robert Burns spoke of Scots miles in the first verse of "Tam o' Shanter":
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
An' getting fou and unco happy,
We think na on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
The Scots mile was longer than the English mile, but varied in length from place to place.[23] It was formally abolished by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland in 1685,[24] and again by the Treaty of Union with England in 1707,[25] but continued in use as a customary unit during the 18th century. It was obsolete by the time of its final abolition by the Weights and Measures Act 1824.[23] An estimate of its length can be made from other Scots units: in Scots, the rod was usually called the fall or faw, and was equal to six ells of 37 inches.[26] As there are 320 rods in a mile and 1.0016 Imperial inches in a Scots inch, this would make the Scots mile equal to 5,920 Scots feet (1,976.5 imperial yards, 1.12 statute miles). Other estimates are similar.[18][27]
Irish mile
The Irish mile (Irish: míle Gaelach) was longer still.[19] In Elizabethan times, four Irish miles was often equated to five English, though whether the statute mile or the "old English" mile is unclear.[19] By the seventeenth century, it was 2,240 yards (6,720 feet, 1.27 statute miles, 2,048 metres).[10][28][29] Again, the difference arose from a different length of the rod in Ireland (usually called the perch locally): 21 feet as opposed to 16½ feet in England.[28][30]
From 1774, through the 1801 union with Britain, until the 1820s, the grand juries of 25 Irish counties commissioned surveyed maps at scales of one or two inches per Irish mile.[31][32] Scottish engineer William Bald's County Mayo maps of 1809–30 were drawn in English miles and rescaled to Irish miles for printing.[33] The Howth–Dublin Post Office extension of the London–Holyhead turnpike engineered by Thomas Telford had mileposts in English miles.[34] Although legally abolished by the Weights and Measures Act 1824, the Irish mile was used till 1856 by the Irish Post Office.[35] The Ordnance Survey of Ireland, from its establishment in 1824, used English miles.[36]
In 1894, Alfred Austin complained after visiting Ireland that "the Irish mile is a fine source of confusion when distances are computed. In one county a mile means a statute mile, in another it means an Irish mile".[37] When the Oxford English Dictionary definition of "mile" was published in 1906,[38] it described the Irish mile as "still in rustic use".[10] A 1902 guide says regarding milestones, "Counties Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Antrim, Down, and Armagh use English, but Donegal Irish Miles; the other counties either have both, or only one or two roads have Irish".[39] Variation in signage persisted till the publication of standardised road traffic regulations by the Irish Free State in 1926.[40] In 1937, a man prosecuted for driving outside the 15-mile limit of his licence offered the unsuccessful defence that, since the state was independent, the limit ought to use Irish miles, "just as no one would ever think of selling land other than as Irish acres".[41] A 1965 proposal by two TDs to replace statute miles with Irish miles in a clause of the Road Transport Act was rejected.[42] The term is now obsolete as a specific measure,[43] though an "Irish mile" colloquially is a long but vague distance akin to a "country mile".[44]
Statute mile
The statute mile was so-named because it was defined by an English Act of Parliament in 1593, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The statute states: "A Mile ſhall contain eight Furlongs, every Furlong forty Poles, and every Pole ſixteen Foot and a half." (35 Eliz. cap. 6.)[45] It was thus 1760 yards (5280 feet, about 1609 metres).[18] For surveying, the statute mile is divided into eight furlongs; each furlong into ten chains; each chain into four rods (also known as poles or perches); and each rod into 25 links. This makes the rod equal to 5½ yards or 16½ feet in both Imperial and US usage.
The exact conversion of the mile to SI units depends on which definition of the yard is used. Different English-speaking countries maintained independent physical standards for the yard that were found to differ by small, but measurable, amounts and even to slowly shorten in length.[46] The US redefined the US yard in 1893, but this resulted in US and Imperial measures of distance having very slightly different lengths. The difference was resolved in 1959 with the definition of the international yard in terms of the metre by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the US.[47] The "international mile" of 1760 international yards is exactly 1609.344 metres.[48]
The difference from the previous standards was 2 ppm, or about 3.2 millimetres (⅛ inch) per mile. The US standard was slightly longer and the old Imperial standards had been slightly shorter than the international mile. When the international mile was introduced in English-speaking countries, the basic geodetic datum in North America was the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27). This had been constructed by triangulation based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893, with 1 foot = 1200⁄3937 metres and the definition was retained for data derived from NAD27, but renamed the US survey foot to distinguish it from the international foot.[49]
The US survey mile is 5280 survey feet, or about 1609.347 218 694 metres.[50] In the US, statute mile formally refers to the survey mile,[51] but for most purposes, the difference between the survey mile and the international mile is insignificant—one international mile is exactly 0.999 998 of a US survey mile—so statute mile can be used for either. But in some cases, such as in the US State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs), which can stretch over hundreds of miles,[52] the accumulated difference can be significant, so it is important to note that the reference is to the US survey mile.
The North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), which replaced the NAD27, is defined in metres. State Plane Coordinate Systems were then updated, but the National Geodetic Survey left individual states to decide which (if any) definition of the foot they would use. All State Plane Coordinate Systems are defined in metres, and 42 of the 50 states only use the metre-based State Plane Coordinate Systems. However, eight states also have State Plane Coordinate Systems defined in feet, seven of them in US Survey feet and one in international feet.[52] State legislation in the US is important for determining which conversion factor from the metric datum is to be used for land surveying and real estate transactions, even though the difference (2 ppm) is hardly significant, given the precision of normal surveying measurements over short distances (usually much less than a mile). Twenty-four states have legislated that surveying measures be based on the US survey foot, eight have legislated that they be based on the international foot, and eighteen have not specified which conversion factor to use.[52]
The old Imperial value of the yard was used in converting measurements to metric values in India in a 1976 Act of the Indian Parliament.[53] However, The current National Topographic Database of the Survey of India is based on the metric WGS-84 datum,[54] which is also used by the Global Positioning System.
Metric mile
Main article: Metric mile
The term metric mile is used in sports such as track and field athletics and speed skating to denote a distance of 1500 metres (about 4921 ft). In United States high school competition, the term is sometimes used for a race of 1,600 metres (about 5249 ft).[55]
Nautical mile
On the utility of the nautical mile
Each circle shown is a great circle– the analog of a line in spherical trigonometry– and hence the shortest path connecting two points on the globular surface. Meridians are great circles that pass through the poles.
Main article: Nautical mile
The nautical mile was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth.[56] Navigators use dividers to step off the distance between two points on the navigational chart, then place the open dividers against the minutes-of-latitude scale at the edge of the chart, and read off the distance in nautical miles.[57] The Earth is not perfectly spherical but an oblate spheroid, so the length of a minute of latitude increases by 1% from the equator to the poles. Using the WGS84 ellipsoid, the commonly accepted Earth model for many purposes today, one minute of latitude at the WGS84 equator is 6,046 feet and at the poles is 6,107.5 feet. The average is about 6,076 feet (about 1,852 metres or 1.15 statute miles).
In the United States the nautical mile was defined in the 19th century as 6,080.2 feet (1,853.249 m), whereas in the United Kingdom, the Admiralty nautical mile was defined as 6,080 feet (1,853.184 m) and was about one minute of latitude in the latitudes of the south of the UK. Other nations had different definitions of the nautical mile, but it is now internationally defined to be exactly 1,852 metres.[58]
Related nautical units
The nautical mile per hour is known as the knot. Nautical miles and knots are almost universally used for aeronautical and maritime navigation, because of their relationship with degrees and minutes of latitude and the convenience of using the latitude scale on a map for distance measuring.
The data mile is used in radar-related subjects and is equal to 6,000 feet (1.8288 kilometres).[59] The radar mile is a unit of time (in the same way that the light year is a unit of distance), equal to the time required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of two miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.8 μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs.[60]
Abbreviation and symbol
There have been several abbreviations for mile (with and without trailing period): mi, ml, m, M. In the United States, the National Institute of Standards and Technology now uses and recommends mi,[61] which avoids confusion with metres, millilitres, etc., but in everyday usage (at least in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada), units such as miles per hour and miles per gallon are almost always abbreviated as mph or mpg (rather than mi/h or mi/gal).
Grid system
Cities in the continental United States often have streets laid out by miles. Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami, are several examples. Typically the largest streets are about a mile apart, with others at half-mile and quarter-mile intervals.[citation needed] In the Manhattan borough of New York City "streets" are close to 20 per mile, while the major numbered "avenues" are about six per mile. (Centerline to centerline, 42nd St to 22nd St is supposed to be 5250 feet while 42nd to 62nd is supposed to be 5276 ft 8 in.)[citation needed]
Idioms
Even in English-speaking countries that have moved from the Imperial to the metric system (for example, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand), the mile is still used in a variety of idioms. These include:
- A country mile is used colloquially to denote a very long distance.
- "A miss is as good as a mile" (failure by a narrow margin is no better than any other failure)
- "Give him an inch and he'll take a mile" - a corruption of "Give him an inch and he'll take an ell" [62][63] (the person in question will become greedy if shown generosity)
- "Missed by a mile" (missed by a wide margin)
- "Talk a mile a minute" (speak at a rapid rate)
- "To go the extra mile" (to put in extra effort)
- "Miles away" (lost in thought, or daydreaming)
- "Milestone" (an event indicating significant progress)
See also
- Anthropic units
- Data mile
- Fibonacci sequence for miles converting to kilometres
- Food miles
- Four-minute mile
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- Geographical mile
- Kilometre
- Mile run
- Scandinavian mile
- Section lines
- Square mile
- United States customary units
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Notes
- ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., s.v. mile 1.
- ^ Speed limit signs (UK) Department for Transport. Retrieved 14 September 2011
- ^ Maximum posted speed limits (US) IIHS. Retrieved 14 September 2011
- ^ Weights and Measures Act, accessed February 2012, Act current to 2012-01-18. Canadian units (5) The Canadian units of measurement are as set out and defined in Schedule II, and the symbols and abbreviations therefor are as added pursuant to subparagraph 6(1)(b)(ii).
- ^ Weights and Measures Act
- ^ Transportation Safety Board of Canada, accessed February 2012, Rail Report - 2010 - Report Number R10E0096. Other Factual Information (See Figure 1). 2. Assignment 602 travelled approximately 12 car lengths into track VC-64 and at a speed of 9 mph struck a stationary cut of 46 empty cars (with the air brakes applied) that had been placed in the track about 2½ hours earlier. Canadian railways have not been metricated and therefore continue to measure trackage in miles and speed in miles per hour.
- ^ Hastings Racecourse Fact Book Like Canadian railways, Canadian race tracks etc, have not been metricated and continue to measure distance in miles, furlongs, and yards (see page 18 of the fact book).
- ^ Environment Canada, accessed February 2012. Environment Canada (Canada's government sanctioned weather bureau), unlike Australia's Bureau of Meteorology etc, offers an imperial option alongside the metric. This is in full compliance with Canadian law and would not otherwise be available if the mile (and indeed all other imperial measurements) did not still have legal recognition in Canada.
- ^ Picture showing a Canadian speed limit in miles per hour (55 mph) "These signs were right after the Canadian border crossing, but for some reason the sign is still in miles." Most Canadian speedometers still display mph in addition to km/h
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- ^ Karl Ernst Georges, ed. (1910) (in German). Kleines deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch [Small German-Latin Pocket Dictionary]. Hannover and Leipzig: Hahnsche Buchhandlung. p. 1660. http://www.zeno.org/Georges-1910/K/Georges-1910-01-1660. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ Smith (1875), p. 171.
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- ^ Rowlett (2005). s.v. milha.
- ^ (Croatian) "Centuries of Natural Science in Croatia : Theory and Application". Kartografija i putopisi.
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- ^ a b c Klein (1974, corrected 1988), p. 69.
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- ^ "Act for a standard of miles" (June 16, 1685). APS viii: 494, c.59. RPS 1685/4/83.
- ^ Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7), art. 17.
- ^ "fall, faw". Dictionary of the Scottish Language – Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?query=fall&sset=1&fset=20&printset=20&searchtype=full&dregion=form&dtext=all.
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- ^ Ordnance Survey Ireland. "Frequently Asked Questions". http://www.osi.ie/en/faq/faq3.aspx#faq7. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
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- ^ Inglis, Harry R. G. (1902). 'Royal' Road Book of Ireland. Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis. p. 14. http://www.archive.org/details/royalroadbookofi00inglrich.
- ^ "Safer roads". The Irish Times: p. 6. October 22, 1926. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1926/1022/Pg006.html#Ar00602. Retrieved May 25, 2009.
- ^ "Irish miles or English? Novel defence made at Bray". The Irish Times: p. 5. November 27, 1937. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1937/1127/Pg005.html#Ar00504. Retrieved May 25, 2009.
- ^ "Carriage of Merchandise by Road". Questions. Oral Answers.. Dáil Éireann debates. 214. Oireachtas. February 23, 1965. p. col.836. http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0214/D.0214.196502230011.html. Retrieved May 26, 2009.
- ^ "mile, n.1 (draft revision)". Oxford English Dictionary (online edition). Oxford University Press. March 2009. http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00309498?query_type=word&queryword=mile&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=2zmg-lV4bBW-5449&result_place=2. Retrieved May 26, 2009.
- ^ Green, Jonathon (2005). Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (2nd ed.). Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 774. ISBN 0-304-36636-6.
- ^ Statutes at large from the first year of King Edward the fourth to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 2. 1763. p. 676. http://books.google.com/books?id=2KZFAAAAcAAJ&q=1593#v=onepage&q=contain%20eight%20furlongs&f=false. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
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- ^ Barbrow & Judson, (1976), pp. 16–17, 20.
- ^ 1,760 yards × 0.9144 m/yard, according to the Weights & Measures Act 1985. Schedule I, Part VI
- ^ Astin, A. V.; Karo, H. A.; Mueller, F. H. (June 25, 1959). "Refinement of Values for the Yard and the Pound". Federal Register. Doc. 59-5442. When reading the document it helps to bear in mind that 999,998 = 3,937 × 254.
- ^ [1].
- ^ Thompson and Taylor 2008, B.6.
- ^ a b c U.S. National Geodetic Survey (undated). "Frequently Asked Questions about the National Geodetic Survey". http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/faq.shtml#Feet. Retrieved May 16, 2009.
- ^ Schedule to the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976.
- ^ Survey of India, "National Map Policy – 2005".
- ^ Rowlett (2005). s.v. mile.
- ^ Maloney, (1978), 34.
- ^ Maloney, (1978), pp. 34–35.
- ^ International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006), The International System of Units (SI) (8th ed.), p. 127, ISBN 92-822-2213-6, http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf.
- ^ Rowlett (2005). s.v. data mile.
- ^ Rowlett (2005). s.v. radar mile.
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External links
- NIST General Tables of Units of Measurement
