nautically

nautical | American Dictionary

nautical
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈnɔ·t̬ɪ·kəl, ˈnɑt̬·ɪ-/
relating to ships, sailing, or people who work on ships

nautical | Business English

nautical
adjective
 TRANSPORTuk /ˈnɔːtɪkəl/us
relating to ships, sailing, or sailors:
The town is proud of its nautical history.

Examples of nautical

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The distance between each range-ring is 0.25 nautical miles (463 m).
A nautical derivation would imply that sails are the only physical objects that flap agitatedly.
We speak also of going like the clappers; this too is a nautical expression.
A scale specifies fine-grained representation formats for an aspect, for example, a distance aspect has multiple scales such as meter, kilometers, and nautical mile.
The spatial distance aspect supports multiple distance scales such as meter, kilometer, and nautical mile.
Later this meaning was extended for storing of information, first military and nautical, then information in general.
The wider international atmosphere has not been kind to local efforts, a hostility captured in the nautical language employed in the title.
Alfred develops the function of the nautical domain and revises the relationship between the spiritual and intellectual domains.
Many of the maritime schools offer a 'ladder-type program', according to which, after completing 2 to 3 years' schooling, students are given an 'associate nautical or marine engineering degree'.
Alfred accordingly employed visual and nautical conceptual metaphors in a uniquely creative way to highlight this connective effort in his epistemological model.
Wilkes famously erred in his reckoning of the positions of land, by tens to more than 100 nautical miles.
Most maritime schools have 'ladder-type' systems, wherein students unable to finish the 4-year college program could be awarded an 'associate in nautical science' or 'associate in marine engineering' degree.
Nautical use derived from that.
The distances to various portions of the ocean circumference are such that the maximum run-up wavelengths do not differ significantly from the average wavelength of 100 nautical miles.
He determined on adopting the nautical profession and undertook a number of voyages as apprentice, and as ordinary and able seaman, in cargo ships and on board whalers.
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