Encyclopedia > Cable length

  Article Content

Cable length

A cable length is a nautical unit of measure, for which at least four definitions seem to exist:

The unit is named after the length of a ships "cable". Needless to say, the cable length as a unit of measure must be considered to be archaic, and very imprecise.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Shoreham, New York

...     Contents Shoreham, New York Shoreham is a village located in Suffolk County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the village had ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 32 ms