half-mile
English
Noun
- Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.
- 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:
- These trains in the course of their day's work often travel a distance little less than that from London to Glasgow, stopping and starting every half-mile.
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