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Factory A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. Th ...

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 ...

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 directions on one or several axes, cutter head speed, and pressure. Milling covers a w ...

Millwork Millwork is historically any wood-mill produced decorative material used in building construction. Stock profiled and patterned millwork building components fabricated by milling at a planing mill can usually be installed with minimal alterat ...

Paper mill A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients. Prior to the invention and adoption of the Fourdrinier machine and other types of paper machine that use an endless belt ...

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-fini ...

, a factory for the manufacture of steel *

Sugarcane mill A sugar cane mill is a factory that processes sugar cane to produce raw sugar or plantation white sugar. Some sugar mills are situated next to a back-end refinery, that turns raw sugar into (refined) white sugar. The term is also used to refer ...

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 good ...

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 * Treadwh ...

* Mill, the arithmetic unit of the analytical engine early computer

People

Andy Mill Andy Ray Mill (born February 11, 1953) is a former alpine ski racer on the U.S. Ski Team. He was two-time Olympian, competing primarily in the downhill and combined events on the World Cup circuit. Ski career Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, ...

(born 1953), American skier * Arnold van Mill (1921–1996), Dutch bass opera singer *

Frank Mill Frank Mill (born 23 July 1958) is a German former professional footballer who was a member of the 1990 FIFA World Cup winning squad of West Germany. Further, he participated at the 1984 and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won the bronze me ...

(born 1958), German footballer *

Harriet Taylor Mill Harriet Taylor Mill (born Harriet Hardy; 8 October 1807 – 3 November 1858) was an English 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 a ...

(1807–1858), British philosopher and women's rights advocate *

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 *

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 Britis ...

(1773–1836), Scottish historian, economist and philosopher *

John Mill (theologian) John Mill (c. 1645 – 23 June 1707) was an English theologian noted for his critical edition of the Biblical Greek, Greek New Testament which included notes on over thirty-thousand Textual variants in the New Testament, variant readings in the ...

(c. 1645–1707), English theologian and author of *

John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism and social liberalism, he contributed widely to s ...

(1806–1873), British philosopher and political economist, son of James Mill * Loek van Mil (1984–2019), Dutch baseball pitcher *

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 career as a battle rapper, and later formed a short-lived rap group the Blo ...

, Robert Rihmeek Williams (born 1987), American rapper and songwriter

Places

Mill City, Oregon Mill City is a city in Linn and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Oregon on Oregon Route 22. The population was 1,971 at the 2020 census. It is on the North Santiam River, downstream from Detroit Lake. The Linn County portion of Mill Cit ...

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. Populatio ...

, a Dutch municipality *

Mill, Netherlands Mill is a village in the south of the Netherlands, located in the municipality of Land van Cuijk, North Brabant. Mill is known from the Battle of Mill, a two-day fight during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. On 1 January 2006, Mi ...

, a Dutch village *

Mill, Missouri Mill is an unincorporated community in Ste. Genevieve County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the ...

, a community in the United States * Mill, an electoral ward of

Magor with Undy Magor with Undy is a Community (Wales), community on the coast of the Severn Estuary in Monmouthshire, Wales. It includes the villages of Magor, Monmouthshire, Magor and Undy. The Magor with Undy community was formed in 1986 from the pre-exist ...

, Monmouthshire, Wales

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Mill (heraldry) Mills are sometimes used as a 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 File:Säkylä.vaaku ...

, a mill depicted in heraldry *

Mill (currency) The mill (American English) or mil (Commonwealth English, except Canada) is a unit of currency, used in several countries as one-thousandth of the base unit. It is symbolized as ₥ (). In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to a ...

, a now-abstract unit of currency *

Diploma mill A diploma mill or degree mill is a business that sells illegitimate diplomas or academic degrees, respectively. The term ''diploma mill'' is also used pejoratively to describe any educational institution with low standards for admission and gradua ...

or degree mill, a provider of illegitimate academic qualifications *

Nine men's morris Nine men's morris is a strategy board game for two players, dating back to at least 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 Eng ...

, known as Mill or Mills, a traditional board game *

Windmill (b-boy move) The ''Windmill'' (or briefly ''Mill'') is a popular breakdancing move. The breaker rolls their torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest/shoulders/back, while twirling their legs in a V-shape through the air. Ori ...

, or mill, a move in b-boying (breakdancing) * ''Mill.'', the standard author abbreviation when citing a botanical name for

Philip Miller Philip Miller Royal Society, FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botany, 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 ...

* Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL), the American indoor lacrosse league, now

National Lacrosse League The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league comprises 14 teams8 in the United States and 6 in Canada. The NLL is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...

* An older slang term for a

boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

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