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noun
A distance in international athletics (particularly track), the 1500 meter race, being about a mile (~1609 meters).
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noun
A distance in international athletics (particularly track), the 1600 meter race, being about a mile (~1609 meters).
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noun
In high school track, 4 laps of the standard 400 meter track, 1600 meters.
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Usage: US
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History
From metric + mile. From being a distance measured in S.I. units (metric), in round numbers, that is similar in distance to that of an international mile.
