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Organizations

  • Mapuche International Link
    Mapuche International Link
    Mapuche International Link is an organization which campaigns on behalf of the Mapuche people of southern Chile and Argentina. The group was formed in 1996 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom....

    , an organization which campaigns on behalf of the Mapuche people
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
    Chartered Institute of Linguists
    The Chartered Institute of Linguists, also known as the Institute of Linguists, IOL and IoL , is a British professional and learned society for education that was founded in 1910. It serves to promote proficiency in modern languages worldwide...

    , a UK-based body serving professional linguists worldwide
  • Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
    Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
    Mil Helicopters is the short name of the Soviet Russian helicopter producer Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant , named after the constructor Mikhail Mil. Mil participates in the Euromil joint venture with Eurocopter....

    , a Soviet/Russian helicopter manufacturer named after Mikhail Mil
  • Military
    Military
    A military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. The military may have additional functions of use to its greater society, such as advancing a political agenda e.g...

    • mil
      .mil
      The domain name mil is the sponsored top-level domain 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 one of the first top-level domains, created in January 1985.The...

      , the top-level Internet domain of the US Military
  • Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación
    Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación
    The Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación was a Catalan ultra-left armed group between 1971 and 1973, based mainly in Barcelona, Spain, and in Toulouse, France. It became famous after its dissolving because of the execution by the Francoist regime of one of its members, Salvador Puig Antich, in March...

    , a Catalan anti-Francoist group from 1971 to 1973
  • Machine Intelligence Laboratory, a group at the University of Florida
    University of Florida
    The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

  • Marine Industries Limited, a Canadian shipbuilder

People

  • Míl Espáine
    Míl Espáine
    In Irish origin legends, Míl Espáine or Míl Espáne is the ancestor of the final inhabitants of Ireland, the "sons of Míl" or Milesians, who represent the vast majority of the Irish Gaels....

    , ancestor to the Irish in Irish mythology
  • Mikhail Mil
    Mikhail Mil
    Mikhail Leontyevich Mil ; 22 November 1909 - 31 January 1970 was a Soviet aerospace engineer. He was founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, which is responsible for many well-known Soviet helicopter models.-Biography:...

    , a founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant

Places

  • Mil, Azerbaijan
    Mil, Azerbaijan
    Mil is a village and municipality in the Beylagan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,975....

    , a municipality in Beylagan Rayon
  • Milan
    Milan
    Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

    , in Italy (IATA city code)
  • Mill Hill Broadway railway station
    Mill Hill Broadway railway station
    Mill Hill Broadway railway station is in the London Borough of Barnet in North London.The station lies on the Midland Main Line and is served by First Capital Connect trains as part of the Thameslink Line service. It is in Travelcard Zone 4...

    , England; National Rail station code
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...

    • Milwaukee Brewers
      Milwaukee Brewers
      The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

       baseball franchise in the MLB
    • Milwaukee Bucks
      Milwaukee Bucks
      The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....

       basketball franchise in the National Basketball Association

Units of measurement

  • Length
    • mil, a thousandth of an inch
    • Norwegian/Swedish mil
      Norwegian/Swedish mil
      A mil is a unit of distance, most often used to measure geographic distance, very common in Norway and Sweden. Today, it measures by definition 10 kilometres, but earlier in history it had different values....

      , 10 kilometres, 10 000 metres.
  • Angle
    • angular mil
      Angular mil
      An angular mil, also mil, is a unit of angle. All versions of the angular mil are approximately the same size as a trigonometric milliradian.-History:The milliradian was first identified in the mid nineteenth Century...

  • Area
    • square mil
      Square mil
      A square mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of length one mil. A mil is one thousandth of an international inch...

    • circular mil
      Circular mil
      A circular mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a circle with a diameter of one mil . It is a convenient unit for referring to the area of a wire with a circular cross section, because the area in circular mils can be calculated without reference to pi .The area in circular mils, A, of a...

  • Currency
    • Hong Kong dollar
      Hong Kong dollar
      The Hong Kong dollar is the currency of the jurisdiction. It is the eighth most traded currency in the world. In English, it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively HK$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...

    • Maltese lira
      Maltese lira
      The lira was the currency of Malta from 1972 until 31 December 2007. The lira was abbreviated as Lm, although the traditional ₤ sign was often used locally...

    • Mill (currency)
      Mill (currency)
      The mill or mille is a now-abstract unit of currency used sometimes in accounting. In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to of a United States dollar...

    • Palestinian pound
  • Metric
    • Milli
      Milli
      Milli is a prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one thousandth . Adopted in 1795, the prefix comes from the Latin mille, meaning one thousand ....

      , a prefix in the SI or International System of Units, meaning one thousandth based from Latin.
    • Millimetre
      Millimetre
      The millimetre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length....

       length and Millilitre volume, erroneously spelled "mil" instead of the metric unit symbol "mm" and "ml" or correct abbreviation "milli".

Other

  • Million
    Million
    One million or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione , from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one.In scientific notation, it is written as or just 106...

    , the number
  • Mother-in-law, in Internet slang
  • Malfunction Indicator Lamp, in modern automobiles
  • Module interconnection language, a language used for programming in the large (Software engineering)
  • Media Integration Layer, the compositing engine used by Desktop Window Manager and Windows Presentation Foundation
  • MIL-STD and MIL-SPEC, the United States Military Standard
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