Definitions for mils

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mils mil

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IPA: /mɪl/

Mils is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in mils (ilms).

Definitions for mils

noun

1. a unit of length equal to 0.001 of an inch (0.0254 mm), used in measuring the diameter of wires.
2. a military unit of angular measurement equal to the angle subtended by 1/6400 of a circumference.
3. (less accurately) the angle subtended by an arc equal to 1/1000 (0.001) of the radius or distance.
4. (used formerly in pharmaceutical prescriptions) a milliliter.
5. a former bronze coin of the mandate of Palestine, the 1/1000 part of a pound.
6. Slang. a million.

Origin of mils

1715-25; short for Latin millēsimus thousandth, equivalent to mill(e) thousand (see mile) + -ēsimus ordinal suffix

Examples for mils

When we include the round-to-round dispersion, it becomes only 1.24 mils.

And against the first target the accuracy observed was about .7 mils, in standard deviation.

Let the members be assured that nine half-pence will be, for every practical purpose, 18 mils.

Just as it left the town, however, it was cheered and assisted by a guide-board, upon which was the legend "10 mils to Hawkeye."

Four mils would be too little, and five mils would be too much.

We put them throug, we hav to carry them 19 mils and cum back the sam night wich maks 38 mils.