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Mil

//mɪl// adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Clipping of military abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Milwaukee. abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    Clipping of Milwaukee: The largest city in Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Noun
  1. 1
    An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.
  2. 2
    Clipping of million. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "Word has it that they were offered a cool ten mil to sell their farm to the land developers."

  3. 3
    Initialism of mother-in-law. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    an angular unit used in artillery; equal to 1/6400 of a complete revolution wordnet
  5. 5
    A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.

    "For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick."

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  1. 6
    Initialism of malfunction indicator lamp. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 7
    a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter wordnet
  3. 8
    A former subdivision (¹⁄₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira.
  4. 9
    a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch; used to specify thickness (e.g., of sheets or wire) wordnet
  5. 10
    Clipping of milliliter. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "We told her to give her daughter ten mils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse."

  6. 11
    a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km wordnet
  7. 12
    Clipping of millimeter. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter."

  8. 13
    a Cypriot monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a pound wordnet
  9. 14
    Clipping of milliradian. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents one mil, which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian).

Etymology 2

Clipping of million.

Etymology 3

Clipping of military.

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