Mill or MILL may mean:

• Mill (grinding) – equipment for the grinding or pulverizing of raw materials using millstones;
  • windmill, wind powered
  • watermill water powered
  • horse mill animal powered
  • treadwheel human powered
• for oil mill see expeller, extruder
• stamp mill a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials.

• Mill (factory) – a place of business for making articles of manufacture. The term mill was once in common use for a factory because many factories in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution were powered by a watermill, but nowadays it is only used in a few specific contexts; e.g.
  • a cotton mill is a factory for processing cotton,
  • a paper mill produces paper,
  • a sawmill cuts timber,
  • a gristmill grinds grain into flour,
  • a steel mill manufactures steel,
  • a sugar mill (also called a sugar refinery) processes sugar beets or sugar cane into various finished products.

• Milling machines are metalworking machines that operate by moving a cutting bit.
• Nine Men's Morris – a traditional board game; the term "mill" may also mean "three (playing pieces) in a row" within the game
• Mill (Netherlands) – a town in the municipality of Mill en Sint Hubert
• Arithmetical unit – used in the context of Charles Babbage's Analytical engine, a 19th century concept of a computer
• Mill (currency) – a tenth of a cent/penny
• Major Indoor Lacrosse League – the indoor lacrosse league, rebranded in 1997 as the National Lacrosse League
• Mill, short for Windmill, a power move in breakdancing
• The Mill, a visual effects company
• Diploma mill or degree mill an organization which awards academic degrees and diplomas with very little or no academic study and without recognition by official accrediting bodies

People named Mill:

• Andy Mill – skier
• Harriet Taylor Mill – philosopher
• James Mill – an Scottish historian, economist and philosopher
• John Stuart Mill – an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century

See also

• mil

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