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# mi

«mi» in Mova's school dictionary: **the short way to write mile, a long unit of length for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

abbreviation (mi); also a note name (mi)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mi is the short way to write mile, a long unit of length for roads and trips. A mile is about 1.6 kilometers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#m1)

2) In singing (do, re, mi), mi is the third note of the scale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a unit of distance written after a number, as in 5 mi; used in travel and speed problems and on road signs in the USA and the UK; mph means miles per hour

### examples

- The town is 12 mi away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x1)
- She drives 30 mi each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x2)
- The trail is 4 mi long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x3)
- A car goes 60 mi in one hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x4)
- The sign said: Beach 3 mi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x5)
- The speed limit is 25 mph near the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x6)
- Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x7)
- We hiked 2 mi before lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/#x8)

### note

Read «mi» as «miles»; it names the unit of the number before it. With «per hour» it is a speed, so distance = speed × time. Trap: do not mix mi with km; mi is not «min» (minutes) and not «m» (meters).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mi» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mi/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.