SIL, Sil and sil may refer to:

Organizations

Servis Industries Limited Service Industries Limited (SIL) (), doing business as Servis, is a Pakistani multinational corporation, multinational shoes and tire manufacturer which is based in Lahore, Pakistan. The company's factories are located in the Pakistani cities o ...

, Pakistan * Smithsonian Institution Libraries *

SIL International SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to ex ...

, formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics *

Apex Silver Mines Golden Minerals (formerly known as Apex Silver Mines), was founded by Thomas Kaplan, from Denver, Colorado. It is a US-American transnational mining corporation with a tax haven address in the Cayman Islands. Following its reorganization under C ...

(former American Stock Exchange ticker symbol) * Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, now International Society of Limnology *

Society for Individual Liberty Liberty International (the new public name of the International Society for Individual Liberty, Inc. or ISIL) is a non-profit, libertarian educational and networking organization based near Austin, Texas. It encourages activism in libertarian a ...

Scooters India Limited Lambretta () is the brand name of mainly motor scooters, initially manufactured in Milan, Italy, by Innocenti. The name is derived from the word Lambrate, the suburb of Milan named after the river Lambro which flows through the area, and wh ...

Science and technology

* Solid immersion lens for microscope *

Standard Interchange Language The Standard Interchange Language Thayer, Warren. "Can SIL break the computer language barrier? The Standard Interchange Language — a data exchange standard designed with wholesalers in mind — may give retail systems integration a big boost", '' ...

, for information exchange between software * Software-in-the-Loop, in software testing; see

Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems or ASAM is an incorporated association under German law. Its members are primarily international car manufacturers, suppliers and engineering service providers from the automoti ...

STIL SCL-interrupting locus protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''STIL'' gene. STIL is present in many different cell types and is essential for centriole biogenesis. This gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein implicated in regulation ...

or SIL, a human gene *

Surge impedance loading The characteristic impedance or surge impedance (usually written Z0) of a uniform transmission line is the ratio of the amplitudes of voltage and current of a single wave propagating along the line; that is, a wave travelling in one direction in ...

of electrical transmission lines * Squamous intraepithelial lesion * Safety Integrity Level of a safety function * Speech Interference Level, an acoustical parameter *

SIL Open Font License The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL International ...

Fiction

Sil (Doctor Who) Sil is a fictional alien from the television series '' Doctor Who'', first appeared in the 1985 serial ''Vengeance on Varos''. Sil was portrayed by Nabil Shaban. Overview Sil was the representative of the Galatron Mining Corporation present ...

, a villain in the TV series * Sil, a character in the film '' Species'' * Silvio Dante, a character in ''The Sopranos''

People

* Narasingha Sil (born 1937), historian *

Sil Campusano Silvestre Diaz Campusano (born December 31, 1965) is a Dominican former professional baseball center fielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, and in the Chinese Professional Basebal ...

(born 1965), a former baseball player * Sil Austin (1929–2001), American jazz saxophonist * Sil, member of the Dutch rap-metal band Urban Dance Squad *

Silvy De Bie Silvy De Bie (born 4 January 1981), also known as Sil (stylised as SIL) or Silvy Melody is a Belgian singer. She was previously a vocalist for the dance band Sylver. Career Silvy was born in Heist-op-den-Berg, and became a Flanders child star ...

or Sil (born 1981), Belgian singer * Sil, project name of Dutch house musician Olav Basoski (born 1968)

Places

Sil (river) The Sil is a river in León (Castile and León) and Galicia, Spain, a tributary of the Miño. Its total length is . The source of the Sil is in the Cantabrian Mountains in the Leonese town of Villablino. It flows through the provinces of Le ...

, Galicia, Spain * Sile (river), Italy, also called Sil

Transport

* South Island line, Hong Kong

Other uses

Tumulung Sisaala Sisaala (''Sissala'') is a Gur language cluster spoken in northern Ghana near the town of TumuEdited by M.E.Kropp Dakubu, ''The Languages of Ghana'', Kegan Paul International, 1988. and in the neighbouring republic of Burkina Faso. Western Sisa ...

(ISO 639-3 language code), a language * Silence-Lotto (UCI code), a bicycle racing team *

SIL code ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' (stylized as ''Ethnoloɠue'') is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensiv ...

, a 3-letter language code used by SIL International * sister-in-law