Sentence examples for nautical unit from inspiring English sources

Another explanation: the three-mile zone simply equals a common nautical unit of measurement, the sea league, which equals three nautical miles.

Nautical units often play a secondary role, but can be essential to victory.

Mr. Bamber, however, said he no intention of selling or buying another property in Panama, unless you count a storage unit for his nautical artifacts.

This helps with the whole nautical theme.

Nautical-area-backscattering coefficients (NASC or sA; see [42] for acoustic units) were recorded along survey tracks at each one nautical mile long georeferenced elementary distance sampling unit [21].

3. Reflect in as many different distance units as possible (inches, feet, miles, nautical miles, etc).

Thus, an aircraft traveling 5 nautical miles due east will be traveling 5 units at heading 90 (read zero-niner-zero by air traffic control).

The line was marked in fathoms, that is, units of one one-thousandth of a nautical mile, or approximately six feet (1.8 metres).

Asked whether his nautical phrasing was a hint that one would be the J. Walter Thompson unit of the WPP Group -- that agency's namesake founder was a commodore -- Mr. Jolna laughed.

On the other hand non-metric units are used in certain regulated environments such as nautical miles and knots in international aviation.

He worked with architect Rick Wilson of Radius Architectural Millwork to build a painted maple storage unit to fill the alcove, complete with Murphy beds and a nautical-inspired steel catwalk.