mile

ot noun

1. Any similarly large distance. The shot missed by a mile.
2. A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters) The runners competed in the mile.
3. One mile per hour, as a measure of speed. five miles over the speed limit
4. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.