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Noun nautical mile has 2 senses
- nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty mile - a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)
--1 is a kind of nautical linear unit
- nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile - a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
--2 is a kind of nautical linear unit
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