A milestone is a marker of distance along roads. Milestone may also refer to:

Measurements

Milestone (project management) Milestones are tools used in project management to mark specific points along a project timeline. These points may signal anchors such as a project start and end date, or a need for external review or input and budget checks. Some contracts for pr ...

, metaphorically, markers of reaching an identifiable stage in any task or the project *Software release life cycle state, see

Pre-alpha A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help impro ...

Developmental milestones Child development stages are the theoretical milestones of child development, some of which are asserted in nativist theories. This article discusses the most widely accepted developmental stages in children. There exists a wide variation i ...

, tasks most children can perform at certain ages

Geography

* Milestone (Arlington, Massachusetts), a historic milestone in Arlington, Massachusetts * Milestone (electoral district), a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada *

Milestone, County Tipperary Milestone () is a small village in the townland of Graniara in County Tipperary, Ireland. It lies on the R503 Thurles to Limerick Regional Road where it is joined by the R497 Nenagh - Tipperary Town road. It is located in the Slieve Felim M ...

, a village in Ireland *

Milestone, Saskatchewan Milestone is a town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada, on Saskatchewan Highway 39. The town was named after C. W. Milestone (superintendent of the New Soo Line) in 1893. The town serves as a service centre for the neighbouring countryside wit ...

, Canada *

Milestone, Virginia Milestone is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County in the U. S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the A ...

, United States

Literature

* ''Milestones'' (play), a 1912 play by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock * ''Milestones'' (book), a 1964 book by Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb *''Milestones I'' (1983) and ''Milestones II'' (1985), by Jack Chambers * ''Milestones'' (magazine), a Christadelphian magazine

Film and TV

* ''Milestones'' (1916 film), British silent drama film based on the Arnold Bennett play * ''Milestones'' (1920 film), American silent drama film based on the Arnold Bennett play * ''Milestones'' (1975 film), by Robert Kramer and John Douglas

Music

Milestone Records Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City. The company was bought by Fantasy Records in 1972. Since then, it has produced LP reissues (including items from Ke ...

, a jazz record label

Bands

Milestones (Austrian band) Milestones, also referred as The Milestones (per the Eurovision official web site), were an Austrian rock band, active between 1968 and 1975. They are known for their participation in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. 1968-1972 The band's origi ...

, a 1970s Austrian band *

The Milestones The Milestones () were a Pakistani pop rock band that formed in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, in 1990. The group was formed by lead guitarist, Ziyyad Gulzar and bassist, Ali Tim, who were soon joined by female lead vocalist, Candy Pereira. The Mi ...

, a 1990s Pakistani band * Milestones (British band), a British pop rock band

Albums

*'' Stan Kenton's Milestones'', by Stan Kenton, 1950 * ''Milestones'' (Miles Davis album), 1958 * ''Milestones'' (Rolling Stones album), 1972 * ''Milestones'' (Roy Orbison album), 1973 * ''Milestones'' (Great Jazz Trio album), 1978 * ''Milestone'' (Gideon album), 2012 * ''Milestones'' (Riff Regan album), 2015 * ''Milestone'' (Chrisette Michele album), 2016 * ''Milestone'' (Lead album), 2018

Songs

*"Milestones", a 1947 John Lewis composition credited to Miles Davis * "Milestones" (instrumental composition), by Miles Davis from the 1958 album of the same name * "Milestone" (song), by BoA

Brands and enterprises

* Milestone (herbicide), a Dow AgroSciences brand name for aminopyralid * Milestone Films, an American film distributor *

MileStone Inc. MileStone Inc. was a Japanese video game developer. The team was composed mostly of ex-Compile developers who left to form their own company. They were best known for shoot 'em up games developed for the Dreamcast and its arcade counterpart, ...

, a Japanese arcade video game developer *

Milestone Media Milestone Media is a company best known for creating Milestone Comics, which were published and distributed by DC Comics and the ''Static Shock'' animated series. It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers, con ...

, an American comic book publisher *

Milestone (Italian company) Milestone S.r.l. is an Italian video game developer based in Milan. Founded in 1994 by Antonio Farina, the studio specialises in racing games, especially motorcycle racing games. The company began under the name Graffiti, developing the car r ...

, an Italian video game developer *

Milestones Grill and Bar Milestones Restaurants Inc. (doing business as Milestones Grill and Bar) is a restaurant chain owned by Foodtastic. There are currently over 40 locations across British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta, New Brunswick, and Ontario. ...

, a Canadian restaurant chain *

Motorola Milestone The Motorola Droid (GSM/UMTS version: Motorola Milestone) is an Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphone designed by Motorola, which runs Google's Android operating system. The Droid had been publicized under the codenames ''Sholes'' and ''Tao' ...

, a GSM version of the Android-based smartphone *

Motorola Milestone 2 The Motorola Droid 2 (GSM/UMTS version: Motorola Milestone 2; GSM/UMTS/CDMA version: Motorola Droid 2 Global) is the fifth phone in Verizon's Droid line. In the U.S., it is available exclusively on Verizon Wireless,

, a GSM version of the Android-based smartphone * ''Milestones'' (video game), a 1981 video game

People with the surname

* Lewis Milestone (1895–1980), Russian-American film director {{Disambiguation, geo