Mile vs. Mole — What's the Difference?

A unit of length equal to 5,280 feet.

Universal in scientific calculations.

Used primarily in the United States and the UK.

Based on Avogadro’s number, 6.022 x 10^23.

Historically measured by the Romans.

A chemical unit for amount of substance.

Often used in colloquial expressions.

Essential in stoichiometry.

Relates to travel and navigation.

Used in teaching fundamental chemistry concepts.

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and US customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by the international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly 1,609.344 metres.

A small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates.

A unit of linear measure equal to 1,760 yards (approximately 1.609 kilometres).

A spy who gradually achieves an important position within the security defences of a country

A very long way or a very great amount

A small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin

By a great amount or a long way

A large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.

Abbr. mi. or mi A unit of length equal to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards (1,609 meters), used in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Also called land mile, statute mile. See Table at measurement.

The SI unit of amount of substance, equal to the quantity containing as many elementary units as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12.

A nautical mile.

An abnormal mass of tissue in the uterus.

An air mile.

A highly spiced Mexican sauce made chiefly from chilli peppers and chocolate, served with meat.

(Sports) A race that is one mile long.

A skin lesion, commonly a nevus, that is typically raised and discolored.

A relatively great distance

Any of various small insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae of North America and Eurasia, usually living underground and having a thickset body with light brown to dark gray silky fur, strong forefeet for burrowing, and often rudimentary eyes.

The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.

A machine that bores through hard surfaces, used especially for tunneling through rock.

Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.

A spy who operates from within an organization, especially a double agent operating against that agent's own government from within its intelligence establishment.

Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

A massive, usually stone wall constructed in the sea, used as a breakwater and built to enclose or protect an anchorage or a harbor.

The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

The anchorage or harbor enclosed by a mole.

Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).

A fleshy abnormal mass formed in the uterus by the degeneration or abortive development of an ovum.

(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.

In the International System, the base unit used in representing an amount of a substance, equal to the amount of that substance that contains as many atoms, molecules, ions, or other elementary units as the number of atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon-12. The number is 6.0221 × 1023, or Avogadro's number. See Table at measurement.

(informal) Any similarly large distance.

A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.

(slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but not closely related to Talpidae moles

(slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.

A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

(espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.

A unit of length equal to 1760 yards

A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines

A unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

A large distance;

A moll, a bitch, a slut.

A former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)

(nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.

A British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)

(rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.

An ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

(historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.

A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. from 1897

A footrace extending one mile;

A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially a sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.

A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.

A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.

A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.

A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.

Any insectivore of the family Talpidæ. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.

A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.

A spy who lives for years an apparently normal life (to establish a cover) before beginning his spying activities.

A quantity of a substance equal to the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; a gram molecule; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the System International d'Unites; as, he added two moles of sodium chloride to the medium.

To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.

To clear of molehills.

The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

A spy who works against enemy espionage

Spicy sauce often containing chocolate

A small congenital pigmented spot on the skin

A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

Small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet

Its length was standardized based on the historical measures used in England and the Roman Empire.

Primarily for measuring distances in navigation and transportation.

As 5,280 feet or about 1,609 meters.

A mole represents an amount of substance that contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12.

It's less common but can be used in research involving large-scale geographical studies.

It allows chemists to count particles by weighing them, crucial in chemical reactions and formulas.

By using Avogadro's number, which is approximately 6.022 x 10^23 particles per mole.

Yes, such as the nautical mile, which is used in aviation and maritime navigation.

No, it varies slightly depending on the country, but the international mile is widely used.

A constant that represents the number of particles in a mole is 1.