Mill may refer to:
Science and technology
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Mill (grinding)
A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting. Such comminution is an important unit operation in many processes. There are many different ...
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Milling (machining)
Milling is the process of machining using rotary Milling cutter, cutters to remove material by advancing a cutter into a workpiece. This may be done by varying direction on one or several axes, cutter head speed, and pressure. Milling covers a wi ...
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Millwork
Millwork is historically any Sawmill, wood mill produced decorative materials used in Construction#Building construction, building construction. Stock profiled and patterned millwork building components fabricated by Milling (machining), millin ...
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Textile mill
Textile Manufacturing or Textile Engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods ...
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Steel mill
A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-finish ...
, a factory for the manufacture of steel
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List of types of mill
Types of mill include the following:
Manufacturing facilities Categorized by power source
* Watermill, a mill powered by moving water
* Windmill, a mill powered by moving air (wind)
* Tide mill, a water mill that uses the tide's movement
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* Mill, the arithmetic unit of the
Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a des ...
early computer
People
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Andy Mill
Andy Ray Mill (born February 11, 1953) is a former Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer on the United States Ski Team, U.S. Ski Team. He was two-time Winter Olympic Games, Olympian, competing primarily in the Downhill skiing, downhill and Alpine skiin ...
(born 1953), American skier
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Frank Mill
Frank Mill (born 23 July 1958) is a German former professional Association football, footballer who was a member of the 1990 FIFA World Cup winning squad of West Germany national football team, West Germany. Further, he participated at the 1984 ...
(born 1958), German footballer
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Harriet Taylor Mill
Harriet Taylor Mill (née Hardy; 8 October 1807 – 3 November 1858) was a British philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her extant corpus of writing can be found in ''The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill''. Several pieces can also be fo ...
(1807–1858), British philosopher and women's rights advocate
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Henry Mill
Henry Mill (c. 1683–1771) was an English inventor who patented the first typewriter in 1714. He worked as a waterworks engineer for the New River Company, and submitted two patents during his lifetime. One was for a coach spring, while the othe ...
(c. 1683–1771), English inventor who patented the first typewriter
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James Mill
James Mill (born James Milne; 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote ''The History of British ...
(1773–1836), Scottish historian, economist and philosopher
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John Mill (theologian)
John Mill (c. 1645 – 23 June 1707) was an English theologian noted for his critical edition of the Greek New Testament which included notes on over thirty-thousand variant readings in the manuscripts of the New Testament.Ehrman, Bart D., ''Mis ...
(c. 1645–1707), English theologian and author of ''Novum Testamentum Graecum''
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to ...
(1806–1873), British philosopher and political economist, son of James Mill
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Meek Mill
Robert Rihmeek Williams (born May 6, 1987), known professionally as Meek Mill, is an American rapper. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he embarked on his music career as a battle rapper, and later formed a short-lived rap group, ...
, Robert Rihmeek Williams (born 1987), American rapper and songwriter
Places
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Mill en Sint Hubert
Mill en Sint Hubert () is a former municipality in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands.
Mill en Sint Hubert, Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022.
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Mill, Netherlands
Mill is a village in the former Dutch municipality of Mill en Sint Hubert, in the province of North Brabant. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Land van Cuijk.
Mill is known from the Battle of Mill, a two-day fight during the ...
, a Dutch village
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Mill, Missouri Mill is an unincorporated community in Ste. Genevieve County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories ...
, a community in the United States
* Mill, an electoral ward of
Magor with Undy
Magor with Undy is a community on the coast of the Severn Estuary in Monmouthshire, Wales. It includes the villages of Magor and Undy.
The Magor with Undy community was formed in 1986 from the pre-existing communities of Undy and Magor. It has ...
, Monmouthshire, Wales
Other meanings
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Mill (heraldry)
Mills are sometimes used as a charge (heraldry), charge in heraldry, usually as a sign for agricultural or industrial endeavours.
Examples
File:Escudo de Viana de Jadraque (Guadalajara).svg, A water mill in the arms of Viana de Jadraque, Spain
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, a mill depicted in heraldry
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Mill (currency)
The mill (American English) or mil (Commonwealth English, except Canada) is a unit of currency (sometimes symbolized as ₥), used in several countries as one-thousandth of the base unit. In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to a ...
, a now-abstract unit of currency
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Diploma mill
A diploma mill (also known as a degree mill) is a company or organization that claims to be a higher education institution but provides illegitimate academic degrees and diplomas for a fee. The degrees can be fabricated (made-up), falsified (fa ...
or degree mill, a provider of illegitimate academic qualifications
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Nine men's morris
Nine men's Morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles, and ninepenny marl in English. ...
, known as Mill or Mills, a traditional board game
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Windmill (b-boy move)
The ''Windmill'' (or briefly ''Mill'') is a popular b-boying move. The breaker rolls his torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest/shoulders/back, while twirling his legs in a V-shape through the air.
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The d ...
, or mill, a move in b-boying (breakdancing)
* ''Mill.'', the standard author abbreviation when citing a botanical name for
Philip Miller
Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular ''The Gardeners Dictio ...
* Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL), the American indoor lacrosse league, now
National Lacrosse League
The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a men's professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United Stat ...
* An older slang term for a
boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...
match
See also
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The Mill (disambiguation) The Mill may refer to:
*The Mill (company), a post-production and visual effects company
* ''The Mill'' (Burne-Jones painting), a painting by British artist Edward Burne-Jones
* ''The Mill'' (Rembrandt), a painting by Dutch baroque artist Rembrandt ...
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Mil (disambiguation)
Mil, mil, or MIL may refer to:
Places
* Mil, Syria, a village in Syria
* Mil, Azerbaijan, a municipality in Beylagan Rayon
* Mil, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
* Metropolitan area of Milan ( IATA code: MIL), Italy
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Mille (disambiguation)
Mille can refer to:
People
* Constantin Mille, Romanian journalist and politician
* Mathieu Mille, French ice hockey player
Places
* Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
* Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota.
* Mille River, a tributary of the Awash River in ...
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Mills (disambiguation)
Mills is the plural form of mill, but may also refer to:
As a name
*Mills (surname), a common family name of English or Gaelic origin
* Mills (given name)
*Mills, a fictional British secret agent in a trilogy by writer Manning O'Brine
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Miller (disambiguation)
A miller is a person who owns or operates a mill which turns grain into flour.
Miller, Miller's, or Millers may also refer to:
People
* Miller Dunckel (1899–1975), Michigan politician
* Miller Forristall (born 1998), American football player
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Milling (disambiguation)
Milling may refer to:
* Milling (minting), forming narrow ridges around the edge of a coin
* Milling (grinding), breaking solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting in a mill
* Milling (machining), a process of using rota ...
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