Talk:Mil

This looks like a few definitions. Please move all of this to Mil (disambiguation) and then make Mil a re-direct page. 66.245.110.129 01:24, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
 * OK, done. --Stormie 01:41, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

How common is liters per mil as fuel efficiency? A google search revealed no links to vehicle related pages. Is this Scandinavian only? -- SGBailey 14:01, 2004 Nov 9 (UTC)


 * Quite common, at least in Sweden (and reportedly Norway). Note that litre is spelled liter in Swedish and Norwegian, the only languages likely to feature the unit. A Google seach for "liter/mil" gives around a thousand hits including ones from the Swedish Road Administration, Swedish and Norwegian newspapers and automobile magazines, sites concerned with environmental issues, government and political party Web sites, automobile dealerships, mathematics problems, and many others. "l/mil" (from Swedish pages only to eliminate noise) gives about 5900 more hits. "kr/mil" (kronor per Swedish mile) also returns many hits. LX 08:17, August 7, 2005 (UTC)


 * Probably Scandinavian only, since the term is only commonly used there. 81.232.72.53 12:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Added mil = 10 km (exact) since I could not find it any page. Probably not the place it should be, but it has to be somewhere on Wikipedia and I could not find it. mil is very common in Sweden at least, primarily spoken Swedish but quite a lot written too when it has to do about driving, and I find it hard to believe it should not be relevant for Wikipedia. /Erik (Swede in Germany) 134.169.85.126 10:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Found it (sigh). Reverted. /Erik 134.169.85.126 10:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

True but www.(example).mil is government site —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.184.55.63 (talk) 18:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

MIL used erroneously or differently
Is this a joke? "The term 'mil' is also jugak ar mangkokused colloquially to mean 'millimetre' or 'millilitre'." That sentence has no meaning to me :)

Mils as currency are shown in mill, how can we show this... Maltesedog 08:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

mil is also used in electronics for millinch (1/1000inch). and mm in used for millimetre and mL for millilitre

True but www.(example).mil is government site —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.184.55.63 (talk) 18:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is used erroneously many times in the United States to refer millimetre and millilitre by non other than Industry Giants because they failed to spell check their labels, websites, prints, and etc. This is also the case with industry professionals who should know better when they are masters of their trade and they specify "mil" instead of "mm" on their papers and designs. According to the article history someone says that "mil" is often used for measuring thickness in materials and although correct but the proper term will be under "length". Also thanks to User: Tiger Marc he has added the SI Unit of milli which should fix the milliinch, millimetre, and mililitre misuse problem. In the industry I work in, it gets really annoying when people start using the word "mil" to imply "mm" and when they get the wrong length they start going nuts about incompetency when themselves used the wrong abbreviation. Neoking (talk) 00:29, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Other meaning of "MIL"
Isn't "MIL" the short for "Mother In Law" too ? --Gabmiral (talk) 12:45, 28 August 2019 (UTC) It might be, but see WP:DABABBREV. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 18:37, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Doscientos
tres 198.200.88.91 (talk) 22:27, 21 January 2022 (UTC)