Mill

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Mill may refer to:

Mill (grinding)
Manufacturing facilities categorized by their power source:
- Watermill, a mill powered by moving water
- Windmill, a mill powered by moving air (wind)
- Tide mill, a water mill that uses the tide's movement
- Treadmill, a mill powered by human or animal movement
  - Horse mill, a mill powered by horses' movement
Manufacturing facilities categorized by their mobile/non-building design
- Ship mill, a water mill that floats on the river or bay whose current or tide provides the water movement
- Field mill (carriage), a portable mill
Manufacturing facility categorized by what material is made (output) or acted upon (input) (or both):
- Gristmill, a grain mill (flour mill)
- Ore mill, for crushing and processing ore
- Paper mill
- Sugar cane mill
- Sawmill, a lumber mill
- Steel mill
- Textile mills for textile manufacturing:
  - Cotton mill
  - Woollen mill
- Wire mill, for wire drawing
Or many other kinds of mills. See Category:Industrial buildings
Mill (heraldry)
Industrial tool for size reduction (comminution) and/or filtration:
- Ball mill, a mill using balls to crush the material
- Burr mill, a mill using burrs to crush the material, usually manufactured for a single purpose such as coffee beans, dried peppercorns, coarse salt, spices, or poppy seeds
- Cutting mill, a device commonly used in laboratories for the preliminary size reduction of materials
- End mill, a type of milling cutter used in milling in the machining sense
- Hammermill, a mill using little hammers to crush the material
- Milling machine, a machine tool that performs milling (machining)
- Pin mill, a mill for achieving very fine particle sizes
- Roller mill, a mill using rollers
- Rolling mill, for rolling (metalworking)
  - Strip mill, a type of rolling mill
- Slitting mill, for slitting metal into nails
- VSI mill, a mill with a vertical shaft that spins
- A wet mill performs wet-milling: steeps a substance in water to remove specific compounds

In computing:

Arithmetic logic unit, used in the context of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a 19th-century concept for a mechanical computer
Early term for the central processing unit of a digital computer, especially in early British machines; the term is still occasionally used to refer to the CPU resources consumed by a program
Mill architecture, a family of general-purpose CPUs using a belt machine computer architecture

Other meanings:

Mill (currency), a denomination used in some currencies, equivalent to a tenth of a cent or penny, or a thousandth of the currency unit
Diploma mill or degree mill, an organization which awards academic degrees and diplomas with little or no academic study and without recognition by official accrediting bodies
A short name for Nine Men's Morris, a traditional board game; within the game it can mean three (playing pieces) in a row
Windmill (b-boy move) or mill, a power move in b-boying (breakdancing)
The Mill (post-production), a visual effects company
The Mill (Ipswich), an apartment complex located on the Waterfront in Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Slang term for a manual typewriter
Mill. is the standard author abbreviation to indicate botanist Philip Miller's work when citing a botanical name
Millage, a property tax

People named Mill:

Andy Mill (born 1953), a skier
Frank Mill (born 1958), a German football player (World Cup winner, Summer Olympics bronze medalist)
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), a philosopher and women's rights advocate
James Mill (1773–1836), a Scottish historian, economist and philosopher
John Mill (theologian) (c. 1645–1707), an English theologian and author of Novum Testamentum Graecum
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), an influential classical liberal thinker and philosopher of the 19th century, son of James Mill

In geography:

Mill, Netherlands, a Dutch village
Mill en Sint Hubert, a Dutch municipality

MILL may refer to:

Major Indoor Lacrosse League, the American indoor lacrosse league, rebranded in 1997 as the National Lacrosse League

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