linear unit vs mile

mile vs linear unit

linear unit and mile both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
linear unit	Yes	No	No	No
mile	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mile is a hyponym of linear unit; that is, mile is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than linear unit:

linear unit: a unit of measurement of length
mile: a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

Other hyponyms of linear unit include long measure, astronomy unit, metric linear unit, nautical linear unit, in, inch, foot, ft, footer, pace, yard, yarder, perch, pole, rod, furlong, international mile, land mile, mi, stat mi, statute mile, miler, 880 yards, half mile, 440 yards, quarter mile, league, ligne, nail, archine, coss, kos, vara, verst, cable's length, cable, cable length, chain, cubit, digit, finger's breadth, finger, fingerbreadth, fistmele, body length, handbreadth, handsbreadth, head, lea, li, link, mesh, mil, mil, Swedish mile, Roman mile, Roman pace, geometric pace, military pace, palm, span, survey mile, fathom, fthm, point, em, pica, pica em, en, nut, cicero, daktylos, quarter of meridian, point size, catholic meter, catholic metre, metro cattolico, universal meter, universal metre.

linear unit (noun)	mile (noun)
a unit of measurement of length	a footrace extending one mile
	a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
	a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
	an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
	a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
	a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
	a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
	a large distance

Difference between linear unit and mile

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