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(mĭl) 
n.
mil2 (mĭl)
n.
Slang. A million dollars.
n.
- A unit of length equal to one thousandth (10 -3) of an inch (0.0254 millimeter), used, for example, to specify the diameter of wire or the thickness of materials sold in sheets.
- A milliliter; one cubic centimeter.
- A unit of angular measurement used in artillery and equal to 1/6400 of a complete revolution.
[Short for Latin mīllēsimus, thousandth, from mīlle, thousand.]
mil2 (mĭl)
n.
Slang. A million dollars.
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A 1 000th part, such that 1 000 of them make a whole.
length (thou) 1/1000 in (0.0254 mm, 0.001 in).
volume UK 1907 For pharmaceuticals, the millilitre (16.231~ minims).
plane angle A variety of units having 1 000 to a convenient large unit, i.e. to a right angle, to a radian, or to a revolution or turn. Since, for very small angles, the tangent of an angle is equal to the size of the angle expressed in radians, a convenient angular scale has the radian divided by the range for expressing the height (else width) of the observed object. For example, having thousandths of the radian allows simple progression from the height of the target object in metres to the range in kilometres; it is often called the infantry mil, being 0.001 rad, and gives 6 283.~ mil per turn. An adjusted version has a rounded 6 400 per turn, giving five layers of binary division to get 100 mil; this is the artillery mil, = 0.000 982~ rad (0.056 25°).
[Burington R. S. Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 48, 188-9 (1941)] An older US artillery mil had 1 000 to the right angle, hence 1 mil = 0.09° (0.001 571~ rad).
Unit Conversions:
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mil-feet
To convert from mil-feet to:
cu inches,
multiply by 9.425E-06.
centimeters,
multiply by 2.54E-03.
feet,
multiply by 8.333E-05.
inches,
multiply by .001.
kilometers,
multiply by 2.54E-03.
yards,
multiply by 2.778E-05.
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categories related to 'mil'
- U.S. System - mil: unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch (0.0254 mm), used esp. to measure diameter of wire or thickness of plastic
- Carpentry - mil: measure of thickness equal to one thousandth of an inch (.0254 mm)
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Mil, mil, or MIL may refer to:
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Organizations
- Mapuche International Link, an organization which campaigns on behalf of the Mapuche people
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, a UK-based body serving professional linguists worldwide
- Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, a Soviet/Russian helicopter manufacturer named after Mikhail Mil
- Military
- mil, the top-level Internet domain of the US Military
- Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación, a Catalan anti-Francoist group from 1971 to 1973
- Machine Intelligence Laboratory, a group at the University of Florida
- Marine Industries Limited, a Canadian shipbuilder
People
- Míl Espáine, ancestor to the Irish in Irish mythology
- Mikhail Mil, a founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
Places
- Mil, Azerbaijan, a municipality in Beylagan Rayon
- Milan, in Italy (IATA city code)
- Mill Hill Broadway railway station, England; National Rail station code
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Milwaukee Brewers baseball franchise in the MLB
- Milwaukee Bucks basketball franchise in the National Basketball Association
Units of measurement
- Length
- mil, a thousandth of an inch
- Norwegian/Swedish mil, 10 kilometres, 10 000 metres.
- Angle
- Area
- Currency
- Metric
- Milli, a prefix in the SI or International System of Units, meaning one thousandth based from Latin.
- Millimetre length and Millilitre volume, erroneously spelled "mil" instead of the metric unit symbol "mm" and "ml" or correct abbreviation "milli".
Other
- Million, the number
- Mother-in-law, in Internet slang
- Malfunction Indicator Lamp, in modern automobiles
- Module interconnection language, a language used for programming in the large (Software engineering)
- Media Integration Layer, the compositing engine used by Desktop Window Manager and Windows Presentation Foundation
- MIL-STD and MIL-SPEC, the United States Military Standard
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