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For a selection of basic naval terms, see the log and report glossary.
Results: knot
- Flank speed
- orders: One quarter more than standard speed except for cruisers, destroyers, light mine layers and fast aircraft carriers. In cruisers, destroyers, light mine layers and fast aircraft carriers it is ten knots more than standard speed.
- Full speed
- orders: One eighth more than standard speed except for cruisers, destroyers, light mine layers and fast aircraft carriers. In cruisers, destroyers, light mine layers and fast aircraft carriers it is five knots more than standard speed.
- Kn(s)
- abbreviation: Knot(s)
- knot
- glossary: One nautical mile per hour. 1 knot = 1.152 mph = 1.85 km/h.
- knot
- nautical: A unit of speed, equalling one nautical mile (6,080.20 feet) an hour, as when a ship goes ten nautical miles per hour, her speed is ten knots.
- KT
- abbreviation: Knots
- nautical mile
- nautical: See knot.
- Standard speed
- orders: A formation speed in knots through the water set by the officer in tactical command of the unit.