Mill

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 sifting 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
  • Wet mill, a mill that steeps a substance in water to remove specific compounds
• Computing senses:
  • Arithmetic logic unit, used in the context of Charles Babbage's Analytical engine, a 19th-century concept of a computer
  • an 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 CPU Architecture, a family of general-purpose CPUs using the belt machine architecture
• Mill (currency), a denomination used by some currencies, the equivalent of 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 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
• Windmill (breakdance move) or mill, a power move in breakdancing
• The Mill (post-production), a visual effects company
• The Mill (Ipswich), an apartment complex located on the Waterfront in Ipswich
• a manual typewriter
• the standard author abbreviation Mill. that may be used 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

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 (disambiguation)
• Mille (disambiguation)
• Mills (disambiguation)
• Miller (disambiguation)
• Milling (disambiguation)
• Grinder (disambiguation)