What is the definition of knots?

Question

i know it relates to distance but ide like a more specific explenation

Answer 1

a speed used for water and air and land

Answer 2

'Knot' is a nautical and aeronautical measure of speed.

    

A nautical mile is the distance covered by one second of arc of latitude.

A knot is one nautical mile in one hour.

If that is too complicated, one knot is the same as going about 1 mile 265 yards in one hour on land.

So 10 knots is about 11.5 mph on land.

Answer 3

See the below webpage for actual knot to mph conversions and distances.

One of the posts in the answers above is not accurate, but is close, as a mariner a knot is usually rounded off to 6080 feet, which is also not deadly accurate, but close enough for navagation.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/WindTun...

Answer 4

What's with all the thumbs down?

These guys nailed it

One nautical mile per hour

1.15  times miles per hour

Answer 5

and knots = statute mph times 1.15.....a statute mile is 5280 feet, a nautical mile is 6060 feet, or  1/21600 ( 60 x 360 ) of the distance around the world at the Equator, or around the world via the North and South poles..

statute miles changed from country to country or king to king....a nautical mile is based on a measurement of the Earth and doesn't change at all

Answer 6

4 knots is 4 nautical miles per hour .as the earth turns imagine the longitudenal lines passing a stationary pointer in space . a nautical mile is the distance the pointer passes on a particular line of latitude  in one minute of arc.. or that might be one second anyway its more than one mile per hour. now you got me thinking i want to learn navigation

Answer 7

knots are those bloody things i have all through my anchor rope after my mates have  ' helped ' me launch the boat.

Answer 8

It is a meaure of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour.

Answer 9

a knot is a measure of speed used on water and air.

it is basically a nautical mile per hour,  where on land we use a statute mile per hour.  

good luck!