No,
As the 1000NM was included in the question, your answer was a tautology.
You are really clutching at straws here- even admitting that "Colloquial" (meaning commonly used) definitions would agree with me.
Your quote about ratios is meaningless- we are talking about the comsumption of one thing.
An aircraft that comsumes one tonne of fuel has a consumption of one tonne. How long that takes or what distance it travels are two seperate things, neither defined by the term alone.
The very fact that you say you must define comsumtion PER anothe unit shows that comsumption refers to the mass or volume, the OTHER term defines a rate or distance.
"A comsumption of one tonne" is a grammatically complete statement, and "Minimum consumption" means using as little as possible for the task in hand- even YOU now seem to agree it can apply to distance just as easily as time.
Last edited by Wizofoz; 19th May 2012 at 14:30.