Mel, Mels or MEL may refer to:

Biology

Mouse erythroleukemia cell line The mouse-derived erythroleukemia cell line F4N (MEL) is an aneuploid cell line, comes from mouse inbred strain DBA/2. It was established in 1977. Eight percent of the total number of cells in culture undergo spontaneous apoptosis Apoptosis (fro ...

(MEL) * National Herbarium of Victoria, a herbarium with the Index Herbariorum code MEL

People

* Mel (given name), the abbreviated version of several given names (including a list of people with the name) * Mel (surname) * Manuel Zelaya, former president of Honduras, nicknamed "Mel"

Places

* Mel, Veneto, an ex-comune in Italy * Mel Moraine, a moraine in Antarctica * Melbourne Airport (IATA airport code) * Mels, a municipality in Switzerland * Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL), the intercommunality of Lille in France

Technology and engineering

* Maya Embedded Language, a scripting language used in the 3D graphics program Maya *

Michigan eLibrary Michigan eLibrary or Michigan electronic library (shortened as MeL), is an online library service of the state of Michigan Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midw ...

, an online service of the Library of Michigan *

Ford MEL engine Ford developed the MEL ("Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln") engine series as the replacement for the Lincoln Y-block V8 engine for use in large passenger car applications. These engines were produced in Lima, Ohio at Ford's Lima Engine plant. They were in tu ...

, a "Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln" engine series *

Minimum equipment list In aviation safety, master minimum equipment list, or MMEL, is a categorized list of on-board systems, instruments and equipment that may be inoperative for flight in a specified aircraft model. Procedures or conditions may be associated with item ...

, a categorized list of instruments and equipment on an aircraft * Miscellaneous electric load, the electricity use of appliances, electronics and other small electric devices in buildings

Arts and entertainment

* ''Mel'' (film), a 1998 film with Ernest Borgnine * ''Mel'' (album), a 1979 album by Maria Bethânia * Portal Stories: Mel, a mod of the video game Portal 2

Other uses

Mel languages The Mel languages are a branch of Niger–Congo languages spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The most populous is Temne, with about two million speakers; Kissi is next, with half a million. Languages Mel has tradition ...

, spoken in western Africa *

Mel scale The mel scale (after the word ''melody'') is a perceptual scale of pitches judged by listeners to be equal in distance from one another. The reference point between this scale and normal frequency measurement is defined by assigning a perce ...

, a scale for measuring auditory pitches as perceived by the human ear *

Midland Expressway Ltd The M6 Toll, referred to on signs as the Midland Expressway (originally named the Birmingham Northern Relief Road or BNRR), and stylised as M6toll, connects M6 Junction 3a at the Coleshill Interchange to M6 Junction 11A at Wolverhampton with ...

, operator of the UK M6 Toll road *

Musical Electronics Library The Musical Electronics Library (or MEL) is a lending library of homemade electronic musical devices in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, and is a worldwide leader in the Scavengetronica movement. The library contains electrolytic capacitors, ...

, a lending library of homemade electronic musical devices in New Zealand *

Mullard Equipment Limited Mullard Limited was a British manufacturer of electronic components. The Mullard Radio Valve Co. Ltd. of Southfields, London, was founded in 1920 by Captain Stanley R. Mullard, who had previously designed thermionic valves for the Admiralt ...

, a former British electronics company * Minimum Equipment List, a regulation for airplanes - see

Master minimum equipment list In aviation safety, master minimum equipment list, or MMEL, is a categorized list of on-board systems, instruments and equipment that may be inoperative for flight in a specified aircraft model. Procedures or conditions may be associated with item ...

* ''Mel'', an online magazine published by

Dollar Shave Club Dollar Shave Club is an American company based in Venice, California, that delivers razors and other personal grooming products to customers by mail. It delivers razor blades on a monthly basis and offers additional grooming products for home del ...

Honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primar ...