Mill may refer to the following:

• 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 (archaic: "treadmill")
• Mill (factory), a place of business for making articles of manufacture. A grinding mill is a Unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces Millstones or mill stones are used in Windmills and Watermills including Tide mills for grinding Wheat or other grains A windmill is a machine that is powered by the energy of the wind This article is about a type of structure For other locational uses see Milldam. A horse-mill is a mill that uses a Horse as the power source Any milling process can be powered in this way but the most frequent use of animal power in horse-mills was for The word Treadmill, originally a type of mill operated by a person treading steps of a wheel to grind grain now designates a piece of indoor sporting equipment for running without A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial Building where workers manufacture goods 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
  • a huller (also called a rice mill, or rice husker) is used to hull rice
• Milling machine, metalworking machine that operates by rotating a cutting bit while the workpiece is moved against the cutter on an XY table. A cotton mill is a Factory housing spinning and Weaving Machinery Cotton was a leading sector in the Industrial Revolution, as cotton A paper mill is a Factory devoted to making Paper from wood pulp and other ingredients using a Fourdrinier Machine or similar apparatus A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards Sawmill process A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of 100 years ago a log enters A gristmill or grist mill is a building where Grain is ground into Flour, or the grinding mechanism itself Steel Mill was one of Bruce Springsteen 's early bands and performed regularly on the Jersey Shore, in Virginia, and also in California from 1969 A Sugar Refinery or sugar Mill is a Factory which refines sugar from various organic sources like sugar cane or beets into a A huller (or sometimes called a rice husker) is a kind of Agricultural machinery to hull Rice. A milling machine is a Machine tool used for the shaping of Metal and other Solid Materials.
• Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials
• Mill (currency), a denomination used by some currencies, equivalent of a tenth of a cent/penny, or a thousandth of currency unit. A stamp mill (or stamp battery) is a type of mill that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores The mill or mille (₥ (sometimes mil in the UK, when discussing Property taxes in the United States, or previously in Cyprus Denomination is a proper description of a Currency amount usually for Coins or Banknotes Denominations may also be used with other means of payment like In some currencies, like the Cypriot pound (introduced in 1955 and lasting until 1983), the use of mills has long ago been abolished and have been replaced entirely by cents. The pound, also known as the lira ( Greek: λίρα / plural λίρες and Turkish: lira, from the Latin The mill or mille (₥ (sometimes mil in the UK, when discussing Property taxes in the United States, or previously in Cyprus In many national currencies, the cent is a monetary unit that equals 1/100 of the basic monetary unit
• The standard author abbreviation Mill. may be used to indicate botanist Philip Miller's work when citing a botanical name
• 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
• Nine Men's Morris, a traditional board game; the term "mill" may also mean "three (playing pieces) in a row" within the game
• Arithmetical unit, used in the context of Charles Babbage's Analytical engine, a 19th century concept of a computer
• Windmill (breakdance move) or mill, a power move in breakdancing
• The Mill (post-production), a visual effects company
• Mill (insult), an abbreviation for "mentally ill" which is now sometimes used in the derogatory sense

People named Mill:

• Andy Mill, skier
• Frank Mill, German football player (World Cup winner, Summer Olympics bronze medalist)
• Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher
• James Mill, a Scottish historian, economist and philosopher
• John Stuart Mill, an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century

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

See also

• mil
• for oil mill, see expeller, extruder

Philip Miller ( 1691 - 18 December 1771) was a botanist of Scottish descent A diploma mill (also known as a degree mill) is an organization that awards Academic degrees and Diplomas with substandard or no academic study and without A diploma mill (also known as a degree mill) is an organization that awards Academic degrees and Diplomas with substandard or no academic study and without Nine Men's Morris is an abstract Strategy board game for two players that emerged from the Roman Empire. In Computing, an arithmetic logic unit ( ALU) is a Digital circuit that performs Arithmetic and Logical operations The analytical engine, an important step in the History of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose Computer by the British mathematician Charles The Windmill (or briefly Mill) is one of the most widely recognized Power moves in Breakdance. The Mill is a Post-production and Visual effects company launched in 1990 with offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. Andy Ray Mill (born November 2, 1953 in Aspen, Colorado) is a two-time Olympic downhill skier from the United States Frank Mill (born July 23, 1958 in Essen) was a German footballer and part of the 1990 FIFA World Cup winning squad of Harriet Taylor Mill (née Harriet Hardy (1807 &ndash 1858 was a Philosopher and Women's rights advocate James Mill (6 April 1773 &ndash 23 June 1836 was a Scottish Historian, Economist, Political theorist, and Philosopher. John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 &ndash 8 May 1873 British Philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential Mill is a village in the Dutch Municipality Mill en Sint Hubert, in the Province Noord-Brabant. Mill en Sint Hubert ( is a Municipality in the southern Netherlands. The National Lacrosse League (NLL is the league of men's indoor lacrosse in North America. Expeller pressing is a mechanical method for extracting Oil from raw materials Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile

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