mil

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noun (1)

ˈmil 

1

: thousand

found a salinity of 38.4 per mil

2

: a monetary unit formerly used in Cyprus equal to ¹/₁₀₀₀ pound

3

: a unit of length equal to ¹/₁₀₀₀ inch used especially in measuring thickness (as of plastic films)

4

: a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹/₆₄₀₀ of 360 degrees and used especially in artillery

mil

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noun (2)

variants or mill

plural mil or mill

slang

: a million dollars

mil

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abbreviation

military

Examples of mil in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Three freshman shows just barely got boxed out of Premiere Week’s Top 10: ABC’s Doctor Odyssey (4.1 mil), NBC’s Brilliant Minds (3.9 mil) and ABC’s High Potential (3.7 mil). —Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2024

Leading out of that, Brilliant Minds debuted to 3.9 mil and a 0.3 — on par with what The Irrational did in the time slot a year ago. —Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2024

Fox News Media as a whole, with Fox proper (4.74 mil), Fox Business (287K), FoxNews.com and Fox Nation all folded in, accounted for nearly 14 million viewers. —Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 Sep. 2024

Multiply the higher levels of pay, benefits, and pensions by 2.8 million federal and 19 mil-lion state and local employees and the transfer of wealth totals $548 billion each year. —Grover G. Norquist, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2012

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Latin mille thousand

Noun (2)

short for million

First Known Use

Noun (1)

1872, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (2)

circa 1942, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

mil

adjective

ˈmil

: a unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ inch (about .025 millimeter) used especially in measuring thickness