[Asterisk-Users] Re: a knotty problem

[Gary Gapinski]

On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10, daryl at introspect.net confidently ordered 
"full speed ahead, damn the torpedos, and steer for that reef over 
there" when he said:
>
> A knot is a unit of linear measurement.

In navigation and weather, it is a measure of speed.

See, for example,

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bro/beau.htm

and

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot+(nautical)