Mill
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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 American indoor lacrosse league, rebranded in 1997 as the National Lacrosse League
- Mill, short for Windmill, a power move in breakdancing
- The Mill (post-production), 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
- Frank Mill – German football player (World Cup winner, Summer Olympics bronze medalist]
- Harriet Taylor Mill – philosopher
- James Mill – an Scottish historian, economist and philosopher
- John Stuart Mill – an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century
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