Mil, mil, or MIL may refer to:

Places

Mil, Syria Mil is a village in Ayn al-Arab District, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, and according to the 2004 census, the village had a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, ...

, a village in Syria *

Mil, Azerbaijan Mil (also, Orconikidze, Ordzhonikidze) is a village and municipality in the Beylagan Rayon of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic ...

, a municipality in Beylagan Rayon * Mil, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran * Metropolitan area of Milan ( IATA code: MIL), Italy *

Mill Hill Broadway railway station Mill Hill Broadway railway station is on the Midland Main Line in England, serving the suburb of Mill Hill in the London Borough of Barnet, north London. It is down the line from and is situated between to the south and to the north. Its thr ...

(National Rail station code: MIL), England *

Miltenberg (district) Miltenberg () is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the city of Aschaffenburg, the districts of Aschaffenburg and Main-Spessart, and the states of Baden-Württemberg (districts of Main- ...

, (German vehicle registration code: MIL) * A common abbreviation for the U.S. city of

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at th ...

and its major professional sports teams: ** Milwaukee Brewers, the city's Major League Baseball team **

Milwaukee Bucks The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team based in Milwaukee. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 ...

, the city's National Basketball Association team

Business and organizations

Marine Industries Limited Marine Industries Limited (MIL) was a Canadian ship building, hydro-electric and rail car manufacturing company, in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, with a shipyard located on the Richelieu river about 1 km from the St. Lawrence River. It employed up to ...

, a Canadian shipbuilder *

Microsystems International Microsystems International Limited (MIL) was a telecommunications microelectronics company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1969. MIL was an early attempt to create a merchant semiconductor house by Nortel Networks (then Northern Elect ...

Limited, a former Canadian semiconductor device manufacturer *

Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (russian: Московский вертолётный завод им. М.Л. Миля) is a Soviet, and later a Russian designer and producer of helicopters headquartered in Tomilino. It is a subsidiary of Russian Heli ...

, a Russian helicopter manufacturer * '' Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación'' (Iberian Liberation Movement), a Catalan anti-Francoist group from 1971 to 1973 * '' Mouvement initiative et liberté'' (Initiative and Liberty Movement), a French Gaullist political association * mil.ru, official website of the Ministry of Defence (Russia)

Currency

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 used sometimes in accounting * mil, 1/1000

Cypriot pound The pound, or lira ( el, λίρα, plural , and tr, lira, ota, لیره, from the Latin via the Italian ; sign: £, sometimes £C for distinction), was the currency of Cyprus, including the Sovereign Base Areas in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, from 1 ...

* mil, (1⁄10-cent) of

Hong Kong dollar The Hong Kong dollar (, sign: HK$; code: HKD) is the official currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It is subdivided into 100 cents or 1000 mils. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is the monetary authority of Hong Kong ...

* mil, 1/1000

Maltese lira The lira ( mt, lira Maltija, plural: ''liri'', ISO 4217 code: ''MTL'') or pound (until ca. 1986 in English, code ) was the currency of Malta from 1972 until 31 December 2007. One lira was divided into 100 cents, each of 10 mils. After 1986 th ...

* mil, 1/1000

Palestine pound The Palestine pound ( ar, جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, ; he, פוּנְט פַּלֶשְׂתִינָאִי (א״י), funt palestina'i (eretz-yisra'eli) or he, לירה (א״י), lira eretz-yisra'elit, link=no; Sign: £P) was the ...

Military

.mil The domain name mil is the sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. The name is derived from ''military''. It was on ...

, the top-level Internet domain of the U.S. military * MIL-STD and MIL-SPEC, the

United States Military Standard A United States defense standard, often called a military standard, "MIL-STD", "MIL-SPEC", or (informally) "MilSpecs", is used to help achieve standardization objectives by the U.S. Department of Defense. Standardization is beneficial in achievi ...

Technology

* Malfunction indicator lamp, in a computerized engine-management system *

Media Integration Layer Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a free and open-source graphical subsystem (similar to WinForms) originally developed by Microsoft for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF, previously known as "Avalon", was initia ...

, the compositing engine used by Desktop Window Manager and Windows Presentation Foundation

Units of measurement

Biblical mile Biblical mile () is a unit of distance on land, or linear measure, principally used by Jews during the Herodian dynasty to ascertain distances between cities and to mark the Sabbath limit, equivalent to about ⅔ of an English statute mile, or wh ...

(Hebrew: מיל / mīl), a length *

Millilitre The litre (international spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metre (m3) ...

(SI-symbol mL or ml, informally "mil"), a volume * Millimetre (SI-symbol mm, informally "mil"), a length *

Milliradian A milliradian ( SI-symbol mrad, sometimes also abbreviated mil) is an SI derived unit for angular measurement which is defined as a thousandth of a radian (0.001 radian). Milliradians are used in adjustment of firearm sights by adjusting t ...

(SI-symbol mrad, informally "mil", or three slightly different non-SI units), for angular measurement *

Scandinavian mile A Scandinavian mile (Norwegian and sv, mil, [], like "meal") is a unit of length common in Norway and Sweden, but not Denmark. Today, it is standardised as 1 being , but it had different values in the past. The word is derived from the same ...

, (Norwegian and Swedish: ''mil''), a length equivalent to 10 kilometres * mil, a

thousandth of an inch A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou (used for both singular and plural) or particularly in North America a mil (plural mils). The w ...

, a length * mil or mill is also a common colloquial clipped form of millimetre

People

Míl Espáine In Irish origin myths, Míl Espáine or Míl Espáne (later Latinized as Milesius; also Miled/Miledh) is the mythical ancestor of the final inhabitants of Ireland, the "sons of Míl" or Milesians, who represent the vast majority of the Irish Ga ...

, ancestor to the Irish in Irish mythology *

Mil Máscaras Mil Máscaras (born Aarón Rodríguez Arellano, July 15, 1942) is a Mexican luchador (professional wrestler) and actor. He is regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of the lucha libre tradition in Mexico – along with El Santo and Blue Demo ...

(born 1942), Mexican luchador (professional wrestler) *

Mikhail Mil Mikhail Leontyevich Mil (russian: Михаи́л Лео́нтьевич Миль; 22 November 1909 – 31 January 1970) was a Russian aerospace engineer and scientist. He was the founder and general designer of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Pla ...

(1909–1970), founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant

Other

Mother-in-law A parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other's spouse. Many cultures and legal systems impose duties and responsibilities on persons connected by this relationship. A person is a child-in-la ...